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Jazz

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

Jazz Album Review: Singer Jo Lawry’s “Acrobats” — Pulling Off the Hardest Thing

Left to her own devices for a change to pick the material, the format, and the musicians, singer Jo Lawry has chosen with grace and guts.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Acrobats, Allen Michie, Allison Miller, Jo Lawry, Linda May Han Oh

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

Jazz Album Review: Pianist Kenny Barron — Cherish “The Source”

The last time Kenny Barron recorded solo was in 1981. That, besides the quality of the music, is a reason to treasure this album.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Kenny Barron, The Source

Jazz Concert Review: The Laszlo Gardony Trio at Berklee College of Music

The smallish Friend Recital Hall was an ideal setting for pianist Laszlo Gardony to impose his engaging personality, as well as his musical versatility and power.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Close Connection, John Lockwood, Laszlo Gardony, Yoron Israel

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 Album Review: “Blues & Bach: The Music of John Lewis” — A Remarkable Accomplishment

MJQ pianist John Lewis would have loved to have had an orchestra this well rehearsed and recorded so beautifully.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Blues and Bach: The Music of John Lewis, Challenge Records, Enrico Pieranunzi Trio and Orchestra, John Lewis, Luca Bulgarielli

Arts Feature: Jazz Notables We Lost in 2022

A roll call of some of the notable musicians who passed away lat year.

By: Tom Hull Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Jazz Poll, Jazz Poll 2022, Jazz RIP, The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll, Tom Hull

The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll — My Poll Without Me

This most recent poll also proves the worth of the poll itself — that it doesn’t so much confirm consensus as create it.

By: Francis Davis Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Francis Davis, Jazz Poll, Jazz Poll 2022, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey

Looking Back at the Francis Davis Jazz Poll: Winners 2006-2022 and Memoirs of a Pollwatcher

There exists a worldwide community of journalists and critics who depend on each other to keep tabs on the ever-expanding universe of jazz and it’s more-or-less-affiliated fringes and fusions, and this poll is one of our most effective — and most anticipated — resources.

By: Tom Hull Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Jazz Poll, The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll, Tom Hull

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