Music
WGBH’s Eric Jackson has truly been the voice of jazz in Boston for more than forty years. This year, Boston Jazz Week centers around a celebration of Eric’s four decades at the heart of the jazz scene in the Boston metro area.
It’s not a bad time to be performing back-to-the-boogie heavy metal music anywhere in the world.
This is a sound I’ve never heard before at a chamber concert: over twenty musicians breathing in unison.
There were the inevitable crowd-pleasers on which Audra McDonald puts her impassioned stamp.
The Rosenbergs is small in scope but large in ambition; it is an accomplished and moving opera that demands attention.
Singer Fred Farell brings an introspective sensibility to this album and has gathered a group of songs that are appropriate for his introverted and quietly aspirational lyrics.
A thoroughly charismatic Fairy Queen from start to finish, well-prepared, fulgently delivered, and received by a packed house with well-earned warmth.
One doesn’t have to have gone too deeply into Buddhism to recognize its influence on the titles found here, and perhaps on the music as well.
The talented duo’s ability to impressively converse across a stylistic divide was fascinating.
Jazz Commentary: Survival of a Scene in Boston
Local music venues — especially those with “off” music like jazz — are caught in a vice, with real estate escalation on one side and corporate-dominated digital technology on the other.
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