Music
Jazz groups of eight to eleven often make fascinating and unusual music, but they rarely survive.
But dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.
While Freda Payne still sings “Band of Gold” on soul package revues, she has recently rekindled the jazz side of her career.
A vital part of Susan Graham’s appeal is her winning personality; she makes a recital hall audience happy to be here before she sings a note.
Murray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
There’s an apparent level of trust between the BSO and its leader, best demonstrated by the spirited excellence of the orchestra’s playing of late.
From Roxbury to Mattapan to Beacon Hill to City Hall, new and not-so-new events are becoming annual features of Boston Jazz Week.
The real advantage Born To Be Blue has over Miles Ahead is that it uses the music as a way to get into the soul of its title character.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s final recording is the conductor at his best. Bernard Haitink helmed a great performance of Mahler’s Symphony no. 1.
Over the decades, avant-garde jazz musical Henry Threadgill has not only enriched but remade the musical landscape.
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