Music
“Blood In the Tracks” delivers a minor miracle: a host of fresh looks at the most (over)written about musician of our age.
Let’s hope composer Tod Machover, Opera of The Future, and the Media Lab have more up their space-age sleeves.
“I just want to fly my kite like everyone else. I’m not interested in being the greatest. That sounds like an awful ball and chain. I love the freedom that I have.”
Trumpeter Terell Stafford never seems to be straining; he can be exuberant without sounding brassy.
Joseph Bologne, whose mother was a slave in Guadeloupe, proves to be as skillful in vocal-dramatic music as we have long known he was in instrumental works.
The band’s performance was stellar. Its setlist was on point: a bit of the new, a bit more of the early stuff, and a whole lot of “AM.” In America, in 2023, that’s just good fan service.
The truth is the Beatles wouldn’t have been the Beatles without Abbey Road, and Abbey Road wouldn’t have been Abbey Road without the Beatles.
We’re not saying get rid of “Madama Butterfly” We’re saying do a better Butterfly.
There was no doubt guitarist Chuck Garvey was already up to the task, sealing the grit and heart necessary to return moe. to jam-bound heights.
September releases from Kris Davis and James Brandon Lewis are sure to be among the best jazz albums of the year.
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