When the violinist who debuted Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello complained it was so complicated that “no one’s going to play it but virtuosos, the composer responded, “Good, then I shan’t ...

Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman once said “Sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.” The Marshall Fire called William Scherer to that ...

With a series of mainstream dates to his credit dating back to the early 1950s—not to mention charter membership in the now-legendary Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) and one-offs with everyone from bop ...