Here are some recommendations of concerts with hybrid works coming to the Boston area in the months ahead.
Jazz
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arts Feature: Jazz Notables We Lost in 2022
A roll call of some of the notable musicians who passed away lat year.
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.
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.