Music
While perhaps not more than the sum of its parts — that would be hard to imagine — the music on this tribute disc has its own vitality and stands well on its own.
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“I’m happy with where I am in my career. I know what I want to do and can do it. I just enjoy it.”
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Singer Allan Harris clearly loves Eddie Jefferson’s music and performs it with sincerity and chops.
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The music and performances on this delightful trio album are blithe and profound, a combination that should charm many listeners.
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For my taste, some of the songs on Kurt Elling’s The Questions simply aren’t challenging or interesting enough.
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The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.
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Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.
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Two recommended discs: James Brawn’s complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fervency and warmth.
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Jesse Colin Young’s best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.
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Rethinking the Repertoire #21– Alban Berg’s “Altenberg-Lieder”
The Altenberg-Lieder feature Alban Berg at his most direct and concise, as well as his most sumptuous.
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