Music
Sit Fast’s performances are breathtaking for their clarity and emotional involvement; Vladimir Jurowski serves up a ho-hum, un-monumental an interpretation of a late-Romantic pillar.
John Abercrombie, one of the great improvisers, died on August 22, after a long illness.
Matt Wilson’s album includes both beautifully performed musical settings and readings of Carl Sandburg poems.
John Beasley and his big band doesn’t tame Monk or make him uncharacteristically pretty.
To their credit, replacing Freddie Mercury is not something his surviving bandmates have ever tried to do.
Hudson serves up varied, fresh, and exciting free jazz that imaginatively draws on rock, funky blues, and folk music.
Chances to hear conjunto music in New England are rare; bravo to the Lowell Folk Festival and Rhode Island’s Rhythm and Roots.
It is my sad duty to report that an evening which looked so promising was hardly a worthy homage to an important musical figure of the 20th century.
These three area pianists offer up a mini-festival of satisfying keyboard music.
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