cello

When you think of improvisation in music, you probably think of saxophone lines sailing through the smoke of a jazz club, not cello riffs frilling up a…

If the celebrated cellist could soundtrack his life, the music would be J.S. Bach's six Cello Suites. Yo-Yo Ma explains why they mean the world to him while he played the music at the NPR offices.

There was a time and a place when the cello was the Rodney Dangerfield of instruments — it got no respect.That time was the 1700s, and the place was…