Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

Music Concert Preview: Where to Hear “The Place Between” — In the Months Ahead

February 7, 2023

Posted in Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music

Here are some recommendations of concerts with hybrid works coming to the Boston area in the months ahead.

Jazz Preview: Aardvark at 50 Sparks a Jazz Scene Sputtering Back to Life in Eastern Massachusetts

September 26, 2022

Posted in Featured, Jazz, Music

The pandemic clouds over the Boston / Cambridge jazz scene are breaking up – not completely by any means – but at last you have a broad menu of live music here to pull you away from your TV bingeing.

Jazz Concert Review: Mark Harvey and The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra—Boston Giants

October 12, 2015

Posted in Featured, Jazz, Music, Review

trumpeter–composer Mark Harvey’s imaginative conducting made the pieces work together in fascinating ways.

Jazz Appreciation: Mark Harvey 44, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra 40

October 8, 2012

Posted in Featured, Jazz, Music

Mark Harvey and the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: It’s hard to remember what the Boston jazz community was like before Harvey came along. In fact, the term “jazz community” would have seemed far-fetched at best if anyone had used it.

Coming Attractions in Jazz: May 2010

May 4, 2010

Posted in Books, Coming Attractions, Film, Jazz, Music, Visual Arts

By J. R. Carroll The academic calendar winds down in May, but jazz in New England just begins the transition to summer in a month packed with tributes and celebrations. Substitute vodka for cachaça and you get a caipiroska; mix three Russians and two South Americans and you get Tridos, an intoxicating twist on Latin…