Music
“PoemJazz” is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to.
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Another excellent recording from the “Rossini in Wildbad” festival, with spellbinding vocal performances by Congolese tenor Patrick Kabongo and other powerful young singers.
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For many years now, we’ve collected brief lists of important jazz figures who passed in the previous year.
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The creative force behind jazz is so strong and so universal that the music will continue to sustain us through whatever perils and calamities the upper echelons of business and politics land us in.
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There is a lot of extraordinary jazz out there that few of us are noticing, myself included.
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When performed with this high level of polish and poise, even Mozart’s darkest music can make you smile.
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In four (more) projects from 2024, jazz-oriented composers supply some of the decade’s best music so far.
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Some rugged individualists may want to break out of the corporate cycle of dependency. If they do, they might even come across music they love that they would never have dreamed existed in the Spotify universe.
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Any opera lover will find much to admire and enjoy in this work, based on a famous 27-strophe poem by Friedrich Schiller that Schubert set in its entirety to music.
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The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: Now and Then and Then and Now — A Top Ten List From Its Namesake
Here’s my Top 10 presented with the understanding that I didn’t hear as many albums as in other years, or concentrate on those I did hear and enjoy as if I had nothing else on my mind.
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