Jazz

Jazz CD Review: Kate McGarry’s “The Subject Tonight Is Love”

February 14, 2018
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Kate McGarry’s latest release is a gorgeous seminar on the many facets of love.

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Music Interview: Do It Now Supplies a New New Beat

February 8, 2018
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Older folks say Do It Now reminds them of the Beats.

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Jazz Review: Curtis Brothers in Concert — Mentoring Bears Fruit

February 8, 2018
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The Curtis Brothers performance was a display of the mentoring system at its best.

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Jazz Concert Review: Lee Konitz at 90 — At the Regattabar

January 31, 2018
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Lee Konitz presented himself as the aging hipster he seems to be — sunglasses, laconic presence, and an I-don’t-give-a-shit attitude.

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Jazz CD Reviews: A Trio of Adventurous Jazz Vocalists

January 27, 2018
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Three jazz singers go outside of the Great American Songbook — with entrancing results.

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Jazz CD Reviews: “Body and Shadow” and “I Am A Man”

January 4, 2018
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Brian Blade is not only a skillfully discreet: he can be as powerful as any drummer since Elvin Jones.

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Jazz Remembrance: Roswell Rudd — Avant-garde Trombonist Extraordinaire

December 29, 2017
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The late Roswell Rudd tried every sound a trombone could make, all of his efforts marked with a natural musicality.

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Commentary: Best Jazz (and Other) Recordings of 2017

December 25, 2017
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The range of recordings issued this year was remarkable, both in terms of their instrumentation and their artistic inspiration.

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Film Review: “Chasing Trane” — Telling the Story of a Jazz Legend

December 20, 2017
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This documentary about John Coltrane serves up skillful, sensitive storytelling and an appropriate sense of reverence.

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Jazz Concert Review: The Bad Plus — Say again?

November 20, 2017
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You could sometimes be halfway into a Bad Plus show before hearing anything like a jazz chord from pianist Ethan Iverson.

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