Since 1993, Jamie Masefield's Jazz Mandolin Project has been offering an entirely new concept of what the mandolin can do. Pushing the boundaries with a new innovative sound, "JMP" has toured ...

August Watters is a multi-stylistic, improvising mandolinist, composer/arranger, and teacher in the Boston area. He has performed with some of the leading figures in today’s revival of this most ...

Sometimes, the strangest notions develop a life of their own. Consider Jamie Masefield’s decade-long obsession, The Jazz Mandolin Project, which along with T.S. Monk, are the big draws for jazz fans.

Back in 1993 Jamie Masefield debuted the first incarnation of the Jazz Mandolin Project. As befits its name, the Project has featured a rotating cast of individuals over the years, including Jon ...

BRECKENRIDGE – Some musicians start their career in the depths of the big city subway. Jamie Masefield, of the Jazz Mandolin Project, began his career while living on a tree farm in the mountains of ...

Performing, writing and teaching jazz mandolin for nearly five decades, Don Stiernberg said he owes much of his success to his brother, John Stiernberg, and his teacher, Jethro Burns. Don Stiernberg, ...

Vermont’s mandolin prince Jamie Masefield plays his heart out on Jazz Mandolin Project’s sixth release, The Deep Forbidden Lake. There’s plenty of radiant music to be found in this collection of 12 ...

While many people think of the mandolin as a melody instrument in a bluegrass band, or perhaps an iconic instrumental voice in Italian music, it has in recent years become one of the lead voices in ...

Traverse City mandolinist Don Julin has played with some of the country’s true bluegrass greats over the years, not to mention spending a couple of years touring with young bluegrass guitar phenom ...

Sometime in 1993 a twenty-something banjo and mandolin player named Jamie Masefield walked into the Last Elm Cafa small not-for-profit coffee shop in Burlington, Vermont and struck himself a deal: the ...

Dr. Demento, the syndicated radio host known for “mad music and crazy comedy,” and The Jazz Mandolin Project, a quartet from Vermont with Phish connections, have been booked for this year’s Musikfest ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. What do you get when you mix a mandolin with a bass and some drums? Country meets the Chili ...