Jazz
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.
The Fest’s music is mostly about audience participation — whether it’s dancing, sing-a-longs, or shouts of call-and-response.
Commentary and Preview: The Shrinking Scene v. Jazz Week and the Thelonious Monkfish Jazz Festival
I try to be optimistic, but it’s hard not to observe that the jazz club scene in eastern Massachusetts is worse than it’s been in decades.
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