Music
One of the distinguishing characteristics of this set is the smart, energetic, and ever-changing, relationship between bass and drums.
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Kamasi Washington’s music connected viscerally with a Royale audience that was packed with young people — or at least way younger than those normally seen at a jazz concert.
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In this album, saxophonist Ethan Helm has achieved a very personal balance between highly composed sections and solos rooted in harmony and free playing.
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Aside from his seemingly effortless technique, Roustem Saïtkoulov struck me as a poet of the piano. Music seems to be his first language.
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Why this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?
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“The pressure, I believe, is the responsibility to work on your gift. It’s God’s gift, a calling for me to share.”
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Daniel Carter’s disc revolves, splendidly, around a process of self-discovery.
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As good an interpreter of large-scale forms as he’s becoming, Andris Nelsons has always been a terrific conductor of new music.
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Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s Rachmaninov album is magnificent; the Münchner Rundfunkorchester do right by Franz von Suppé’s overtures, and the Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to unearth gems.
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Skylark performed an inventive and highly enjoyable program of music and tales from Norse Mythology and the land of the Vikings.
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