Music
One might conjecture that Lena Horne’s career was something like a mink-lined minefield: the promise of wealth and fame went hand-in-hand with the possibility of annihilation.
The Chameleon Arts Ensemble shed new light on Ernest Chausson’s quartet in A major, Op. 30, the very model of Belle Époque verve and melodicism.
To this day, attend any metal or heavy-music show in the Northeast and you are bound to see someone sporting a t-shirt or hoodie emblazoned with the iconic Sam Black Church cross-on-triangle logo.
These new mixes and remixes of the source material, outtakes, and scintillating live cuts show how The Replacements were one of the greatest bands to ever not care much about being one.
A stirring trio date featuring John Scofield on guitar with Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums.
Bill Frisell fans were blessed to hear the Denver-bred, Berklee-schooled guitar savant at a massive multi-space facility that might offer the state’s most awe-inspiring concert hall.
Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.
Will Hermes reveres Lou Reed’s music, and he expounds on his love in this voluminous, well-researched biography.
The show was proof that Queen + Adam Lambert are quite capable of mixing things up, even as they give everybody exactly what they’ve come to hear.
Arts Remembrance: The Passage of a Giant — Carla Bley, 1936 – 2023
Carla Bley was an original. We will never see her like again. It is a great blessing that she left so much music.
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