Music
Lespecial proves that not all “jam bands” are simply children of the Dead.
The group’s first record of new material in well over a decade, “Hackney Diamonds” isn’t quite a bad Rolling Stones record but it’s decidedly not a good one.
Tenor Zachary Wilder — a Boston favorite — and others shine in a Cavalli opera from 380 years ago.
Biographer Judith Tick is reverent about the singer without falling into hagiography: with honest scrutiny, she asserts the enduring value of Ella Fitzgerald’s achievement for generations to come.
If you’re brave enough to dip your toes into a musical unknown, there are pleasures a-plenty to be had in this recording, in which Joe Jackson takes us on what purports to be a musicological excavation of the works of a long-forgotten figure of the English Music Hall era.
The whole recording reminds me that numerous forgotten but extremely accomplished nineteenth-century works can provide rich satisfactions when performed as well as this
Two highly recommended sets available on vinyl in limited editions on Record Store Day, November 24. CD issues will follow shortly afterward.
An admiring review of the latest disc from Hermitage Trio and praise for Boston Philharmonic and Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra concerts earlier this month at Symphony Hall.
These jazz albums are splendid representations of the first full decade of LPs and of stereo recording as well.
The final installment in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’ s Shostakovich symphonies series is not nearly as overwhelming as its kick-off disc.
Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part One