Review
Volume 1 in a new series from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and John Wilson whets the appetite for more music by the late-19th-century American composer Edward MacDowell.
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There’s something gleefully retro about his hour-plus-long jukebox.
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“Data Mind” contains a spiritual blessing — it teaches us how to praise life in a universe that is so broken it is determined to erase our humanity.
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Bottom line: “Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023” captures the manic, mercurial energy that transformed the man born James Osterberg into the legend that is Iggy Pop.
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The keyboard wizard’s latest album both continues a trend of expansive projects that take the long view and celebrates the decade-plus the virtuoso has resided in the United States. It is a blast.
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“PoemJazz” is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to.
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More than the threat posed by the ghost, “Presence” is desperately terrified of ambiguity.
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The publication of “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas” is especially welcome and necessary at this time.
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One of translation’s greatest powers — its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language, and set of conventions and transplant it into another — is a delicate procedure.
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“Enigma” is as unlike the standard sports documentary as a Cybertruck is to a F-150.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues