Jazz
This is a trio of superb songsters, whose individual lyricisms support each other
The intent of this fine album to dramatize the enduring legacy of Martin Luther King: no justice, no peace.
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.
A stirring trio date featuring John Scofield on guitar with Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums.
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.
Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.
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.
Four recent releases illustrate what can happen when the only limits are the imagination of the composer and the passion of the performers.
Big band leader Arturo O’Farrill points out that “Santiago Brooklyn Santiago” makes a forceful argument that the embargo between Cuba and the United States should be done away with.
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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