Jon Garelick
In Godwin Louis’s music, prayer seems best expressed in dance.
If 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.
Pianist Ran Blake’s performance was like a long dreamscape of personal reflection and meditation.
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Lamb, with his spiritual imperative, is clearly seeking, and achieving, incantatory power.
Some at times sentimental observations of New Orleans’s “other” massive music confab, the French Quarter Festival.
Once again, here was the shock in Cécile McLorin Savant’s subversive conceptual daring.
A massive, comprehensive new box set once again shows us the diva’s indomitable place in the history of opera.
The 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.
Terri Lyne Carrington, on her home turf (she’s a native Bostonian and holds several positions at Berklee, including being founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice), augmented her six-piece band with three guests.
Jason 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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