Jazz
With their expert handling of powerfully understated compositions, this trio’s performances insinuate themselves into your mind and age there like fine wine.
The jazz of tomorrow is in gifted hands. The future of the music business is more up for grabs.
Jazz buffs know about the Yellowjackets. This is a Grammy-winning band that writes and performs complicated, intricate compositions that cross countless boundaries and thus make them difficult to pigeon-hole.
Cambridge and Springfield have launched promising new festivals even as some others have dropped by the wayside. Meanwhile, festivals in Northampton, Cambridge (again), Lawrence, and Newton have announced their schedules..
Pianist Fred Hersch’s ballad playing is one of the special treats in contemporary jazz.
“One of the great things about improvisation is that it teaches you the importance of the moment and how to live in that moment and place importance on this life and making this life better.”
If you can’t make the Montreal International Jazz Festival this time, put it on your bucket list.
One of drummer Ra-Kalam Bob Moses’s most resonant teachings was that it is better to find the infinite possibilities within a single idea than to keep changing ideas every ten seconds.
If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
He knew what he wanted to do, he did it, and he took millions along for the ride.
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