Music
Perhaps more impressive — though too late to evolve further given the group’s impending finale after eight years and more than 200 shows — was the growing roles and comfort level shown by Dead & Company’s younger charter members.
There was nothing sloppy about the band’s searching and probing: the members of Dead & Company were perfectly locked into each other, were enjoying the musical exchanges being made in the moment.
These pieces integrate the various, varied sounds James Shipp and Nadje Noordhuis produce into something rhythmically as well as melodically exciting and coherent.
Bass-wielding provocateur Les Claypool is an expert at warping the seemingly conventional into carnivalesque oddity.
A fascinating CD packed full of little-known works by composers who knew Berlioz, including his onetime fiancée Camille Moke and a youngish Franz Liszt.
The trio on hEARoes is enthralling; it doesn’t sound like anything I have heard.
I immediately heard how adept these players were — and how brilliantly they played together.
I wonder why this fine session was withheld for 49 years. It might be the bitter-sounding texts, or the very fact of vocals in a jazz session.
Sloane: A Jazz Singer is very sweet film that never cloys because of the singer’s naturalness, honesty, occasional self-deprecation, and sense of humor.
Both of these documentaries offer gratifying viewing for any curious roots music fan.
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