Music
Magos Herrera teamed up with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet to create a collection of music that makes its case for life, love, and liberation through its sheer beauty.
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Richard Muti draws playing of full-blooded passion from Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Thierry Fischer conducts Camille Saint-Saëns with a sure hand, and violinist Tasmin Little’s new recording of neglected violin-and-piano pieces by mid- and late-Romantic women composers is terrific.
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Eric Dolphy fully deserves the renewed attention that this important release demands.
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2018 saw the release of four ambitious and powerful jazz releases driven by poetic texts.
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A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).
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“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”
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River Music will satisfy the slightly adventurous listener as few other records I heard last year.
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Here are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.
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Trumpeter Jason Palmer is a master of rhythmic displacement.
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Jazz CD Preview and Survey: Years of Utter Beauty, Part 2
Part one of this survey looked at one upcoming performance and five CDs where music takes the leading role. This post looks at the other side of the coin, where the words are the wellspring for the music.
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