Jazz
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.
Chronicling Gene Krupa’s ups and downs and registering his impact on contemporary music, Master of the Drums is a well-deserved account of one of the key musical artists of the past century.
Getting to know the Composer Chair of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the first composer of color to have a comprehensive long-term relationship with the BSO.
Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95