Jeff "Tain" Watts is one of the most in demand jazz drummers in the world today. Jeff Watts majored in classical percussion at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University, where he was primarily a timpanist, ...

Over the past year, Jazz Night's Crate Digging series has been an opportunity for host Christian McBride to share some special concerts from the Jazz at Lincoln Center archives, often featuring master ...

The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge by Ciaran Carson 224pp, Penguin Classics, £15.99 Sometimes "heroic" seems the wrong word for much of the world's ancient heroic literature ...

Within the West’s small but precious hoard of archaic literary epics, “The Tain” is surely the most complex and least known outside its native Ireland. Even in its homeland, it’s a work more often ...