Jazz
Jazz groups of eight to eleven often make fascinating and unusual music, but they rarely survive.
But dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.
While Freda Payne still sings “Band of Gold” on soul package revues, she has recently rekindled the jazz side of her career.
Murray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
From Roxbury to Mattapan to Beacon Hill to City Hall, new and not-so-new events are becoming annual features of Boston Jazz Week.
The real advantage Born To Be Blue has over Miles Ahead is that it uses the music as a way to get into the soul of its title character.
Over the decades, avant-garde jazz musical Henry Threadgill has not only enriched but remade the musical landscape.
Live, the experience of a cosmic rhythm with every stroke is both more intense and more intriguing than on record.
Pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith produce music that is precise and quietly evocative, peaceful and gently probing.
Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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