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Steve Elman

Music Concert Preview: Where to Hear “The Place Between” — In the Months Ahead

Here are some recommendations of concerts with hybrid works coming to the Boston area in the months ahead.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Big Bandwagon, Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Donal Fox, Jason Moran, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Mark Harvey, New England Conservatory Jazz Studies and Contemporary Musical Arts Department, Ran Blake, Steve Elman

Music Commentary: The Place Between “Classical” and “Jazz” Becomes a Destination

2022 was a year in which hybrid musical forms reached more Boston audiences than ever before. 2023 promises to open even more doors. The Place Between is no longer dangerous territory, a detour, or a side road. It has become a destination in itself.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Donal Fox, Duke Ellington, Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Steve Elman, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Classical Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1 – 12, played by the RedKoral Quartet and Guests

Over the past year, I’ve delved into the most significant body of work for string quartet ever written by a composer whose primary identity with the public is as a jazz musician. Here’s how to begin your own encounter with important facets of the work of an artist whose name you ought to know.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Ankhrasmation, RedKoral, RedKoral Quartet, Steve Elman, String Quartets, TUM, Tum Records, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz Preview: The Scene Lives! — Local Jazz in the Months to Come

Get out there and hear some live music. It’s the best gift you can give to your ears.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Steve Elman

Jazz Preview: Aardvark at 50 Sparks a Jazz Scene Sputtering Back to Life in Eastern Massachusetts

The pandemic clouds over the Boston / Cambridge jazz scene are breaking up – not completely by any means – but at last you have a broad menu of live music here to pull you away from your TV bingeing.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Mark Harvey, Steve Elman

Jazz Album Review: Tony Williams’s “Play or Die” Gets Full Release, 40 Years On

The shadow of Weather Report looms over this groove session of consonant harmonies, the only documentation of a short-lived band that should have had the chance to burn more brightly.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: M.I.G Music, Play or Die, Steve Elman, Tony Williams, Weather Report

Jazz Review and Conversation: Jane Ira Bloom’s Pandemic Duets

Jane Ira Bloom responded to her pandemic isolation with a CD of duets with bassist Mark Helias and a CD of duets with drummer Allison Miller. These two sessions are unique projects in her discography and beautiful testaments to her ingenuity.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Jazz Tagged: Allison Miller, Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias, Some Kind of Tomorrow, Steve Elman, Tues Days

Jazz Performance Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner at Home

To hear this performance properly. you must do a bit more work than you might do ordinarily . . . but great art deserves such work.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Cécile McLorin Salvant, GHESKIO, Steve Elman, Sullivan Fortner

Jazz Album Review: Miguel Zenón’s Law Years Band & Christian McBride’s New Jawn Band

Two pianoless quartets + two restless leaders = some of the best music of the last few years.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Christian McBride, Law Years, Miguel Zenón, Ornette Coleman, Stave Sessions

Music Profile: Violinist, Teacher, Composer, and Arranger Mimi Rabson — Making a Life in Art

The life of a working musician is not a second-class life, and Mimi Rabson’s is Exhibit A: “I try to get past the limits of the definitions and get to the joy.”

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Jazz, Music Tagged: Berklee College of Music, David Harris, Jazz Composer Alliance, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Klezmer Conservatory Band, Mimi-Rabson, RESQ, Steve Elman, Strings Theory Trio, Triarky

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