Jazz
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.
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.
With the galvanic addition of Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus is now made up of four intense virtuosos.
trumpeter–composer Mark Harvey’s imaginative conducting made the pieces work together in fascinating ways.
From noon to six on Saturday, September 26, Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fifteenth year.
Miles Davis at Newport, 1955-1975 has its drawbacks, but I wouldn’t want to be without this four-disc collection
Joey Alexander is more than a mere prodigy; he is closer to a freak of nature, a fully formed jazz virtuoso.
Scott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.
So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”
Arts Remembrance: Guitarist Garrison Fewell — The Master of Searching for Something More
An inspiring man as well as a brilliant musician, Garrison Fewell had the courage to turn away from the darkness and to embrace the light.
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