Jazz
Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis celebrates New Year’s Eve with a nifty little band.
Several of these discs, including the sublime Jim Hall-Red Mitchell collaboration, are unexpected pleasures.
I think any one of these releases would be received gratefully by a person who listens with both ears.
Sheila Jordan, to the club crowd in Central Square: “What do I care? I’m still alive.”
Contagious enjoyment is very much the goal of Ken Field’s Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Mission accomplished.
Dave Liebman’s band, like its adventurous leader, is more than willing to take a deep dive.
Intense head music and powerful foot music, but this show needed a little more heart.
Over a dozen short notices of recent jazz recordings that I find musically stimulating.
With an artist as focused and sharp as Danilo Pérez as its musical director, Jazz 100 makes you sit up straight and hang on every note.
Country for Old Men is surely going to stand as one of the best, as well as among the most unusual, recordings of the year.

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