Music
The presence of veteran drummer Jack DeJohnette ties together two new releases.
The artists on this expansive tribute frequent different genres, but they find ways into these songs that play to their respective strengths while also deftly showcasing the underlying sturdiness of Neal Casal’s material.
Florence Price’s voice and the richness and complexity of an almost-entirely neglected body of symphonic music by Black American composers can be heard in this excellent recording.
This is an album of real spirit and vigor, a mix of the thoughtful and the exciting, all bracingly recorded.
Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s diverse list includes John Lee Hooker, Víctor Jara, The Grateful Dead, Grand Funk Railroad, and Yes.
This weekend’s concerts all add up to a quintessential Symphony Pro Musica event: a mix of the familiar and unexpected, with various old friends coming by to visit along the way.
I find Visions of Your Other exciting. It is beautifully recorded: these are four musicians who care about their sound.
It seems the right time for The Slip to answer the perennial calls for a reunion.
Beethoven never left Europe. But he could have. And the possibility that he might have visited Boston is the basis of Paul Griffiths’ touching, witty, and thought-provoking new novel.
Album Reviews: The Proper Way to Reveal the Sound of the Past
Three releases that do a superb job of preserving and explaining historic recordings.
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