Jon Garelick
Kris Adams is one of those singers who can do amazing things without ostentatious showiness.
Read MoreIn moments like these, the band Riverside captures the Jimmy Giuffre ideals of sonority and counterpoint — where even the drums act as another complementary linear voice.
Read MoreThe slow tempos on the whole didn’t hurt the show. People were there to hear Madeleine Peryoux — her voice and delivery, her offbeat arrangements and particular idiosyncratic take on familiar songs.
Read MoreJazz Guitarist Eric Hofbauer likes to deconstruct tunes and scramble them with free-associative juxtaposition.
Read MoreAn evening that showed yet again how pop (even “modern” pop) can serve as nourishment for new jazz.
Read MoreThe name of the band itself comes from a tune by the most “classical” of all jazz bands, the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Read MoreBut Mr. Ho’s Brian O’Neill had another idea. What if he took the very inauthenticity of the original music as a motive for putting together things that were never meant to go together originally? Like Bach’s Toccata and Fugue with a Balkan beat?
Read MoreMiss Tess and the Talkbacks — the group will be at MA’s Green River Festival on Saturday. Catch them if you can.
Read MoreThere’s no denying the excitement the López-Nussa brothers can create.
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Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.
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