For all of the music’s fury, protest, anguish, and raw brutality, Tattoo the Earth was a lovefest.
Music
Jazz Album Review: Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch’s Winning “The Song Is You” — Suffused With Tact and Grace
The sound of both musicians is indelible: trumpeter Enrico Rava is warm and rounded; pianist Fred Hersch, often icy, is fetching and detailed.
Rock Album Review: Marcus King’s “Young Blood” — A Manic Joy Ride
There’s little doubt at this point regarding the 26-year-old guitarist’s talent for pulling multiple influences into one cohesive, original sound.
Rock Album Review: The Goo Goo Dolls — Back with a Tasteful Bang
It is always heartening for an album to live up to its much-anticipated buildup. It is even more reassuring that, after nearly four decades, The Goo Goo Dolls are breaking new ground.
Opera Album Review: From Fascist Italy — With Love?
An opera from Fascist Italy, Gino Marinuzzi’s Palla de’ Mozzi receives a splendid world-premiere recording. Should you listen despite its pedigree?
Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Four, “Farewell”
“Farewell” is the shortest album in the series, but it is perhaps the most provocative in the way it calmly muses, philosophically, on the form that togetherness can take – as it exists and as it dissolves.
Jazz Album Review: Miguel Zenón’s “Música de las Américas” — A Buoyant Musical Adventure
The saxophonist has the slithery facility of a bebopper, but I also hear something of the forthright stance of Coltrane in his playing, despite the rhythmic complexity of his writing — and his distinctively varied use of his Puerto Rican background.
Jazz Album Review: Barre Phillips and György Kurtág Jr. Go “Face à Face”
To my ears, these beautifully recorded improvisations — with their unique sequences of tones and subtle interactions — are never less than intriguing.
Opera Album Review: Richard Flury, A Swiss Composer You Should Know About
A world-premiere recording of Richard Flury’s fascinating 1935 opera about love, deceit, and the possibility of forgiveness.
Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe — The Rewards and Hazards of Reinterpretation
Age certainly wasn’t an issue in terms of energy. Elvis Costello played for a solid two hours with barely a break, running through four decades of music with a heavy emphasis on the old favorites.