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This edition of Wheels of Soul works just fine as a display of post-Allman Brothers Band/post-Lynyrd Skynyrd/ post-Tom Petty musical sensibilities shaped in the South.
One of the most astonishing sets of my week in Montreal featured two Frenchmen, accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien.
Among the festival’s highlights: pianist-singer Jeremy Dutcher, who arrived on the stage of the tiny space Gésu dressed in shorts and a long flowing black robe with a hood.
Pianist Constantine Finehouse and violinist Daniel Kurganov are well-matched musicians, and have recorded a superb album.
An elegy to youth and the transgressions of reckless behaviors, Them celebrates sex as a wild and raw imperative.
Nels Cline 4 is a group that can cross musical and cultural boundaries with exhilarating ease.
Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
Thornton Wilder’s Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.
Director Debra Granik’s focus on young women whose lives have been steeped in nature and hardship, forced to lead their families forward despite scant resources, posits a refreshing feminine archetype.
Music Commentary: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — Women are Locked Out
“They travel the world and have for years,” says Ellen Seeling, “sending the message that there are no women good enough to be in this organization.”
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