Steve Elman
It’s clear these four musicians love playing together. As long as the magic lasts, it’s well worth your hearing.
Read MoreIn two new releases, Jane Ira Bloom and Brian Carpenter complete their work on self-defined projects that are tonics for a time of trouble.
Read MoreIf you want to know how exquisitely intuition and structure can be balanced, you could hardly do better than to hear these two new discs.
Read MoreThese three area pianists offer up a mini-festival of satisfying keyboard music.
Read MoreThis is music that says things that cannot be said any other way, music that cannot wear its heart on its sleeve.
Read MoreAt his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.
Read More“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray
Read MoreI think any one of these releases would be received gratefully by a person who listens with both ears.
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Commentary and Preview: The Shrinking Scene v. Jazz Week and the Thelonious Monkfish Jazz Festival
I try to be optimistic, but it’s hard not to observe that the jazz club scene in eastern Massachusetts is worse than it’s been in decades.
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