Jazz
The best parts of this book of interviews come when Charles Mingus or his collaborators talk about the music.
Read MoreOne of the world’s greatest bass players recently enthralled a standing-room only crowd with a masterful performance, and the attendees could not have numbered more than 75 people.
Read MoreIn the wake of the horrors of last week, Jazz Week 2013 comes as almost an act of defiance, an insistence that life will go on in all sectors of the Boston community.
Read MoreTen Freedom Summers is a masterful, supple series of compositions that has the gravitas of a major work that also, from time to time, it swings dramatically.
Read MorePianist Randy Weston and arranger Melba Liston will be honored in a celebratory concert at the New England Conservatory.
Read MoreThe wizards of mandolin and jazz piano were in perfect sync, blending styles and breaking barriers.
Read MorePianist Donal Fox is a classical musician by training, and in style, with a yen for improvisation and, one might add, an unwillingness to let things be.
Read MoreYou have to appreciate a guy who expressed his concern for both the drought on the Texas plains and the local arts community’s drought in terms of cancelled jazz programming on WGBH and the closing of the BOSTON PHOENIX.
Read MoreThe Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra sought bravely to straddle the jazz and classical worlds with a little help from some star soloists.
Read MoreIt turns out that it was more than just a rumor that saxophonist Charles Lloyd spent some of the ’70s playing with The Beach Boys.
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