Steve Elman
Sheila Jordan, to the club crowd in Central Square: “What do I care? I’m still alive.”
Read MoreIntense head music and powerful foot music, but this show needed a little more heart.
Read MoreWith an artist as focused and sharp as Danilo Pérez as its musical director, Jazz 100 makes you sit up straight and hang on every note.
Read MoreA writer has to write for the now or to write for the ages. Gleason almost always chose the now, but his best moments go deeper.
Read MoreJazz groups of eight to eleven often make fascinating and unusual music, but they rarely survive.
Read MoreMurray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
Read MoreBoth David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
Read MoreThe BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.
Read MoreThe great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.
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Jazz Performance and CD Review / Commentary: Jane Ira Bloom’s “Wild Lines” and “Early Americans”
Exposing the jazz impulses in Emily Dickinson’s poetry is not an agenda for the novice.
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