Music
At 52 Sumner, the 27-year-old guitar virtuoso and his crack band moved freely among blues, soul, funk, R&B, and rock — making a compelling case that Ingram is ready for much larger rooms.
Ahead of a run of shows with Boston’s Naya Rockers, the veteran Jamaican musician looks back on the Gladiators, Lee “Scratch” Perry, political “sleepwalking,” and a career still driven by curiosity.
John Worthen’s biography explores the composer’s lifelong devotion to Clara Schumann and its role in shaping his music.
Kamasi Washington, Herbie Hancock, Flea and a lively new generation showed how the festival is stretching jazz’s boundaries without losing its center.
On “Bring on the Psychics,” the post-hardcore veterans sound urgent, thoughtful and surprisingly rejuvenated, balancing punishing riffs with hard-won wisdom.
The weekend stand in Boston offered crowd-pleasers, deep cuts, and one of Phish’s most startling bust-outs in decades.
The “Monoman” was obsessive, exacting, and unforgettable.
A Singapore Symphony Orchestra recording of compositions by John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, and Hugo Friedhofer quietly punctures old prejudices about film composers and “serious” music.
The Wilkes-Barre doomgaze artist talks creative block, bare-bones recording, and why he prefers to play in shows with musicians that don’t sound like him.
Arts Remembrance: The Musical Mission of Joel Cohen
His galvanizing presence left an enduring mark on Boston’s musical culture.
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