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Jazz Review: Pianist Kenny Werner — Teaching “Effortless Mastery”

February 4, 2016
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“The problem is that more people get lost going to music school than get found.”

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Music Preview: Billy Childs Reimagines Laura Nyro

January 19, 2016
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Pianist/arranger/composer Billy Childs’s aim was to reimagine Nyro’s music.

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Album Review: Weather Report — Definitively Live

December 29, 2015
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These live recordings capture Weather Report’s sound during its most celebrated years.

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Music Feature: Joyce Moreno at Berklee

December 17, 2015
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When she composes a song, she said, it’s her guitar, rather than her voice, that “chooses the key. The guitar is the boss.”

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Fuse Music Preview: Joyce Moreno Meets Berklee

December 10, 2015
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Iconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno.

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Music Feature: Top Jazz Albums of 2015

December 6, 2015
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How does one keep a big band together long enough to make such brilliantly evocative sessions as that by Maria Schneider and the others listed here?

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Cultural Commentary: After Three Decades, The End of Live Jazz at Boston’s Top of the Hub

December 4, 2015
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Top of the Hub was one of the very rare places in the country where ordinary folks would bump into jazz every night.

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Fuse Album Review: Fresh Improvisational Sounds from Finland’s TUM Records

December 3, 2015
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According to its web site, TUM operates mainly thanks to volunteers. We should be grateful.

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Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s Gunther Schuller Memorial

November 25, 2015
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As a composer, Gunther Schuller’s legacy is complex and has yet to be settled. Sorting through it all will constitute a great, welcome adventure.

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Concert Review: Pianist Fred Hersch—A Wonder of a Soloist

October 31, 2015
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As a soloist, Fred Hersch is a wonder: he plays with an active, to the point of restless, two-handed style that sweeps a listener along with its lyrical fervor.

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