Jon Garelick
In Godwin Louis’s music, prayer seems best expressed in dance.
Read MoreIf Fernando Huergo’s band of A-list Boston players sounded especially inspired, it was certainly in no small part due to what he was giving them to play.
Read MorePianist Ran Blake’s performance was like a long dreamscape of personal reflection and meditation.
Read MoreMulti-instrumentalist Andrew Lamb, with his spiritual imperative, is clearly seeking, and achieving, incantatory power.
Read MoreSome at times sentimental observations of New Orleans’s “other” massive music confab, the French Quarter Festival.
Read MoreOnce again, here was the shock in Cécile McLorin Savant’s subversive conceptual daring.
Read MoreA massive, comprehensive new box set once again shows us the diva’s indomitable place in the history of opera.
Read MoreThe Pulitzer Prize-winning composer eludes easy categorization, but Henry Threadgill’s new memoir — and his latest recording — take a step in defining his singular artistic personality.
Read MoreJason Moran, as virtuoso pianist and bandleader, enacted all of jazz history at the keyboard, from ragtime to no time, as the saying goes.
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