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Music Preview: Creative Music Series Brings Live Jazz to Live Audiences

March 27, 2021
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At a time most venues are doing without live music, the Creative Music Series is bucking the trend with free public concerts in outdoor locations throughout the Boston area.

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Jazz Album Review: Nik Bärtsch’s “Entendre” — Zen Funk

March 27, 2021
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To my ears, the pieces in Entendre are fascinating, if not particularly funky.

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Jazz Concert Review: Portrait of Composer/Pianist Ran Blake — Celebrating 85 Years

March 25, 2021
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Ran Blake was in fine form at the festivities as were the New England Conservatory faculty and student participants.

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Jazz Album Review: Big Bands, Ian Charleton and Schapiro17

March 21, 2021
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Two big bands, two different sides of the tradition.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Benoît Delbecq and Satoko Fujii — Resilience Made Beautiful

March 18, 2021
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A couple of adventurous pianists decided, as their latest solo releases confirm, to use forced isolation as a spur to inspiration.

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Jazz Album Review: Charles Lloyd & the Marvels — Still Telling Genre-Blurring Stories

March 17, 2021
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It’s rare to find a band that so naturally assimilates its individual voices to strike a collective palette.

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Jazz Concert Review: Maria Schneider with the NEC Jazz Orchestra

March 11, 2021
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Radiating a shaman-like mysteriousness, Maria Schneider prowled the performance space, calling forth dark twists and turns from the collective while summoning anguished expressions from the soloist.

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Jazz Special Feature: Chick Corea (1941-2021) — Memories and Impressions

March 5, 2021
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Fuse critics pay homage to Chick Corea performances and recordings that they found memorable.

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Music Profile: Violinist, Teacher, Composer, and Arranger Mimi Rabson — Making a Life in Art

February 26, 2021
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The life of a working musician is not a second-class life, and Mimi Rabson’s is Exhibit A: “I try to get past the limits of the definitions and get to the joy.”

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Jazz Album Review: Kemp Harris’s “Live at The Bird SF” — An Infectious Hybrid

February 24, 2021
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This live performance recording showcases the Boston-based singer/pianist Kemp Harris’s merrily eclectic approach — it is a thought-stirring and animated musical excursion.

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