Music
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.
The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.
Pianist Ahmad Jamal rose to fame by doing something completely different.
What unites country and hip-hop? An outlaw narrative.
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters