Music
“We are in a time that challenges each of us running arts organizations to revisit and reaffirm our institution’s core existential purpose: why are we here? What do we do, and why does it matter?”
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One of the show’s impressive accomplishments is that its creators managed to find musicians who could act.
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Car Seat Headrest’s drive to show us something fresh permeates Making a Door Less Open, and that is admirable.
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All in all, this album a pretty easy recommendation for those who like Al Di Meola and/or the Beatles.
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Are we seeing the birth of a competing union, one dedicated to mobilizing a generation of musicians whose needs aren’t being met by the American Federation of Musicians?
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“At Boston Baroque, as we look to the future, we take comfort in knowing that redefining ourselves is in our organization’s DNA.”
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The Lynne Arriale trio offers the kind of mutual responsiveness that only the best small groups attain.
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The master alto saxophonist Richie Cole died on May 2 at age 72. The cause of death has not been announced, so it’s unknown for now if it was related to COVID-19.
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Play The Way You Feel is the best volume around on the uneasy relationship between film and jazz.
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Arts Remembrance: Darick Campbell — Quiet Giant of the Sacred Steel Guitar
Darick Campbell was one of the Campbell Brothers, the Rochester-based group whose emergence on the roots music circuit in the late ’90s played a major role in the mainstream discovery of the sound known as “sacred steel.”
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