Jazz
Allen Lowe is a saxophonist, composer, and historian of early jazz and roots music who doesn’t think he’s getting a fair shake from jazz’s gatekeepers.
The whole band demonstrated an expressive variety of mark-making, as visual artists like to say: lines and squiggles and blotches, graceful or rude.
Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.
The magic in Eliane Elias’s performances is in how easily she slips from one musical dialect into another.
A trio of superb albums run the stylistic gauntlet, from the traditional to the experimental.
I don’t know anything quite like Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Turko-jazz playing. (I invented the term.) I am glad it’s here for us to enjoy.
If any of these songs get some airplay and serve as gateway drugs to the glories of the Count Basie band, I’m all for it.
Pianist Larry Goldings’ repertoire on this trio album is expertly chosen for its variety and melodic appeal.
The performance at Groton Hill Music Center will “be a journey through Brazil. They will hear some classics, some great Brazilian love songs, and hear stories about the songs. I will dedicate some of the show to the bossa nova.”
On two recent releases, trumpeter Paolo Fresu shows us exactly what he has learned from Miles Davis, and how that has expanded rather than limited his music.
Arts Commentary: The Kennedy Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra — A Tale of Two Crises