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Concert Reviews: Jazz Journal — An Overview of Recent Live Shows

February 27, 2025
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A Boston jazz critic’s notebook — three shows at Regattabar and one at the Lilypad.

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Classical Album Reviews: Debussy Sonatas and Arc III

February 27, 2025
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Nash Ensemble’s new album captures much of what makes Claude Debussy’s chamber music so fresh and beloved. Orion Weiss’s Arc III is smart, timely programming, dispatched with insight and care.

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Jazz Album Reviews: A Cornucopia of Tenor Saxophonist Mark Turner

February 26, 2025
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Whether he’s playing in the middle, on the edge, or is just flying out on his own, veteran tenor saxophonist Mark Turner reconfirms on these three new releases that he is still finding his own way.

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Classical Album Review: Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Music of Mahler and Weill

February 26, 2025
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Sir Simon Rattle and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra solve the riddle of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. The conductor and the London Symphony Orchestra also offer a refreshingly impish, characterful traversal of music by Kurt Weill.

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Concert Review: Handel + Haydn Society Explores the Romantic Music of Young Handel

February 23, 2025
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This H + H Society performance suggested Handel’s genius for generating joy.

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Jazz Album Review: The Timeless Stillness of Satoko Fujii’s “Altitude 1100 Meters”

February 22, 2025
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Music is one of the ways we experience time — Satoko Fujii and the musicians in “GEN” make it disappear.

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Jazz Album Review: Jon Irabagon’s “Server Farm” — Music to Swing to A.I. By

February 21, 2025
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The album’s message about the triumph of A.I. is unconvincing, but the music, with its variety of sounds and tempos, its zigzaggy shifts, written and improvised, is totally engrossing.

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Rock Concert Review: Singer/Guitarist Jack White — He’s in Love with Rock ‘n’ Roll

February 19, 2025
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The singer/guitarist rolls the dice every night, playing it loose and gritty with drummer Patrick Keeler, bassist Dominic Davis, and keyboardist Bobby Emmett, who deftly hack away at revolving song choices from White’s broad catalog and beyond.

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Jazz Album Review: Exactly on Time — Kenny Wheeler Legacy’s “Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores”

February 19, 2025
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An excellent new album by the ad hoc ensemble Kenny Wheeler Legacy. It is impossible not to think of how the great trumpeter Kenny Wheeler would have sounded over these updated arrangements with such top-drawer musicians and excellent production.

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Book Review: “Just Beyond the Light” — Essential Heavy-Metal Lit

February 17, 2025
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There are similarities between Randall Blythe’s music and his prose; both acknowledge the inescapable turmoil, darkness, and tragedy that bedevils everyone.

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