Jazz
The album features seven tracks played by five different groups fronted or co-led by guitarist John McLaughlin.
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This is the quintessential Club d’elf album, smartly arranged and surprisingly accessible without losing any of the group’s improvisational edges or exotic breadth.
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Jean-Michel Pilc is a talented pianist who expresses his happiness at just being alive via performances that treat the most revered standards in a manner that is wholly personal, even idiosyncratic — yet memorable.
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This cooperative music is deliberately international in instrumentation and personnel and theme, proffering its own characteristic, and often quite beautiful, mix of sounds.
Read MoreJazz Concert and Album Review: Vincent Peirani and Emile Parisien — Bringing Culture to the Colonies
The communication between Vincent Peirani’s accordion and Emile Parisien’s soprano sax was effortless, empathetic, and flawless.
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This is free jazz perhaps, but it never sounds frantic, wild, or abandoned.
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Blues singer Beth Hart wields the hammer of the gods with easy finesse but also deep emotion.
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With their shifting textures and compositional variety, the relatively short pieces show the ways — in this case mostly gentle and lyrical — five musicians can fruitfully interact.
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If you are not familiar with Wadada Leo Smith as an artist or as a thinker, you could start with The Chicago Symphonies and know that you are engaging with some of his finest work.
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Pianist Billy Lester is an amusingly dry fellow who is also a deeply serious, idiosyncratic musician.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues