Jazz
Violinist Regina Carter and her band drew the audience in with a sustained mood of intimacy, warmth, and unfailingly beautiful playing.
Esperanza Spalding is not simply beyond reproach – she is a young lioness the likes of which the jazz world has really never seen before.
There were times during the performance when Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and the band seemed to fully enter the Ottoman empire.
Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the helm again as the artistic director.
Free and fluid as it was, the set made memorable sense to the packed crowd at the Lily Pad.
Wadada Leo Smith’s latest album features a series of miraculous performances that give a new meaning to freedom: the sometimes lengthy and airily open improvisations take us on journeys but never seem to wander.
“Magic” reflects the Mendes touch—more than 50 years of expert piano, arranging, and production chops, and a genius for choosing the right collaborators.
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is back, and from Northampton to Falmouth jazz festivals abound throughout the waning days of summer and the arrival of autumn.
With their expert handling of powerfully understated compositions, this trio’s performances insinuate themselves into your mind and age there like fine wine.
Jazz Remembrance: You Don’t Know Jack—From Glasgow to New York
“With Cream I and Ginger could play free jazz as a rhythm section, while Eric played the Ornette Coleman role. However, we didn’t tell Eric that!”
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