Music
The music on Accent’s album is lovely and the singers render the arrangements with skill and commitment.
Their combined sound, made by two nested pianos, their lids off, aided and abetted by Jordan Hall’s superb acoustics, was irresistible.
Singer Sara Serpa refracts, bends, suspends, and shifts sounds and syllables, creating a kind of linguistic limbo.
The deeply personal nature of the music’s narrative drew some extraordinary music from Liszt’s pen.
This weekend’s concert fires on all cylinders. Don’t miss it.
There’s not much about the blues that Paul Rishell, 68, and Annie Raines, 48, don’t know or can’t play.
There was an easy depth to the music, if such is possible, as if the musicians were digging in hard, but with the relaxed assurance that comes of a shared vision.
One marvels at Bill Frisell’s improvisations, which can be both surprising and songful.
Benjamin Zander, who’s led some distinctly fine concerts in recent years, drew the best out of his band.
The members of this trio seem to have preternatural access to each other’s musical thoughts.
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