Jazz
“My hope is that in the near future the mainstream music pendulum will swing much more heavily towards giving jazz the attention it deserves.”
Read MoreJazz groups of eight to eleven often make fascinating and unusual music, but they rarely survive.
Read MoreBut dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.
Read MoreWhile Freda Payne still sings “Band of Gold” on soul package revues, she has recently rekindled the jazz side of her career.
Read MoreMurray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
Read MoreFrom Roxbury to Mattapan to Beacon Hill to City Hall, new and not-so-new events are becoming annual features of Boston Jazz Week.
Read MoreThe real advantage Born To Be Blue has over Miles Ahead is that it uses the music as a way to get into the soul of its title character.
Read MoreOver the decades, avant-garde jazz musical Henry Threadgill has not only enriched but remade the musical landscape.
Read MoreLive, the experience of a cosmic rhythm with every stroke is both more intense and more intriguing than on record.
Read MorePianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith produce music that is precise and quietly evocative, peaceful and gently probing.
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