Jazz
If you want to know how exquisitely intuition and structure can be balanced, you could hardly do better than to hear these two new discs.
John Abercrombie, one of the great improvisers, died on August 22, after a long illness.
Matt Wilson’s album includes both beautifully performed musical settings and readings of Carl Sandburg poems.
Hudson serves up varied, fresh, and exciting free jazz that imaginatively draws on rock, funky blues, and folk music.
These three area pianists offer up a mini-festival of satisfying keyboard music.
The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.
Pianist Ahmad Jamal rose to fame by doing something completely different.
Of course, neither saxophonist sounds precisely like Coltrane: there would be no point in trying.
Large parts, if not all, of this well played, eclectic disc should appeal to various tastes in modern improvised music.
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