Jazz
One of the most astonishing sets of my week in Montreal featured two Frenchmen, accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien.
Among the festival’s highlights: pianist-singer Jeremy Dutcher, who arrived on the stage of the tiny space Gésu dressed in shorts and a long flowing black robe with a hood.
Nels Cline 4 is a group that can cross musical and cultural boundaries with exhilarating ease.
Lionel Loueke is a unique voice, who has managed to bring a number of influences together without weakening or undermining any of them.
Pianist Harold López-Nussa is his own bold and expressive rhythm section.
On these two discs you’ll find masterfully played, engaging excursions into the tonal beyond.
There are no missteps on this disc. Buster Williams and company make all the complications swing, mightily.
At this time in the Boston jazz scene, there are no ongoing spaces for big bands and, predictably, the number of such ensembles has shrunk.
The show had an undercurrent that brought to the fore all the issues that have put Wynton Marsalis at the center of the culture wars.
Music Commentary: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — Women are Locked Out
“They travel the world and have for years,” says Ellen Seeling, “sending the message that there are no women good enough to be in this organization.”
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