Jazz
Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.
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The magic in Eliane Elias’s performances is in how easily she slips from one musical dialect into another.
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A trio of superb albums run the stylistic gauntlet, from the traditional to the experimental.
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I don’t know anything quite like Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Turko-jazz playing. (I invented the term.) I am glad it’s here for us to enjoy.
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If any of these songs get some airplay and serve as gateway drugs to the glories of the Count Basie band, I’m all for it.
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Pianist Larry Goldings’ repertoire on this trio album is expertly chosen for its variety and melodic appeal.
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The performance at Groton Hill Music Center will “be a journey through Brazil. They will hear some classics, some great Brazilian love songs, and hear stories about the songs. I will dedicate some of the show to the bossa nova.”
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On two recent releases, trumpeter Paolo Fresu shows us exactly what he has learned from Miles Davis, and how that has expanded rather than limited his music.
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Chronicling Gene Krupa’s ups and downs and registering his impact on contemporary music, Master of the Drums is a well-deserved account of one of the key musical artists of the past century.
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Getting to know the Composer Chair of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the first composer of color to have a comprehensive long-term relationship with the BSO.
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