Jazz
Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman’s work is customarily full of subtle surprises, akimbo with shifts and side-trips. This new recording, with a sextet, is no exception.
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This is a trio of superb songsters, whose individual lyricisms support each other
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The intent of this fine album to dramatize the enduring legacy of Martin Luther King: no justice, no peace.
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One might conjecture that Lena Horne’s career was something like a mink-lined minefield: the promise of wealth and fame went hand-in-hand with the possibility of annihilation.
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A stirring trio date featuring John Scofield on guitar with Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums.
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Bill Frisell fans were blessed to hear the Denver-bred, Berklee-schooled guitar savant at a massive multi-space facility that might offer the state’s most awe-inspiring concert hall.
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Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.
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These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.
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Four recent releases illustrate what can happen when the only limits are the imagination of the composer and the passion of the performers.
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Arts Remembrance: The Passage of a Giant — Carla Bley, 1936 – 2023
Carla Bley was an original. We will never see her like again. It is a great blessing that she left so much music.
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