Jazz
Murray 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.
Read MorePianist/arranger/composer Billy Childs’s aim was to reimagine Nyro’s music.
Read MoreThese live recordings capture Weather Report’s sound during its most celebrated years.
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Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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