Music
Two discs: Jamaican-American musician Jordan Bak celebrates music for the viola and a reconstruction of Charles Martin Loeffler’s abandoned Octet.
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The music on David Murray’s” “Francesca” is both antic and intense; it’s played by a responsive and inventive quartet who sound like they are having considerable fun entertaining themselves.
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Much praised by Berlioz and others, this Italian opera (composed for the great mezzo María Malibran) brings a notable female composer out of the shadows.
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“The only way to keep the music alive is to view it as a living thing and support artists who approach it that way, rather than as a museum piece.”
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What Lana Del Rey lost in time at Fenway she tried to make up for with the slew of guests she brought on stage.
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Part of what makes “Under a Rock” special is Chris Stein’s open-eyed fascination with New York City.
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In truth, recordings don’t capture the Naughtons’ symbiotic flair — the performance at Rockport revealed them not only to be a superb piano duo, but a significant cut above.
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This world-premiere recording lets us hear one of the most effective recent operas, based on the famous book by Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Read MoreMusician Interview: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Celebrate the 20th Anniversary Of “Shake the Sheets”
“I would say that a good half of ‘Shake the Sheets’ has always remained in our set. We haven’t necessarily played all of those songs at every show, but they’ve been rotating in and out all the time over the last 20 years.”
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Jazz Commentary: Celebrating Bassist William Parker’s Lifetime of Achievement
It was not just networking that propelled William Parker into the front rank of bassists. He could generate such a huge and complex cascade of sound that he energized leaders from Cecil Taylor and Ivo Perelman to Zoh Amba.
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