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Jazz Concert Review: Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon Pay Splendid Homage to “One of the Original Big Bangs in Black Music”

Jason Moran, as virtuoso pianist and bandleader, enacted all of jazz history at the keyboard, from ragtime to no time, as the saying goes.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, James Reese Europe, Jason Moran, Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon, Jon Garelick

Jazz Concert Review: The Bad Plus — Say again?

You could sometimes be halfway into a Bad Plus show before hearing anything like a jazz chord from pianist Ethan Iverson.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Ethan Iverson, The Bad Plus

Music Review: Singer/Songwriter Lucinda Williams — Americana Chanteuse

The sense of place, the passage of time, the death-haunted imagery, and the coolly rhythmic verse gives Lucinda Williams’s songs their traction.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Buick Six, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams

Jazz Concert Review: John Scofield’s “Country for Old Men” — Well Worth a Visit

Country for Old Men is surely going to stand as one of the best, as well as among the most unusual, recordings of the year.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Bill Stewart, Country for Old Men, John Scofield, Larry Goldings, Steve Swallow

Music Preview: Saxophonist Grace Kelly — On Jazz and Beyond

“My hope is that in the near future the mainstream music pendulum will swing much more heavily towards giving jazz the attention it deserves.”

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, David Sanborn, Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly Jazz saxophonist, Matt Hanson

Fuse Music Preview: Joyce Moreno Meets Berklee

Joyce Moreno comes to Berklee

Iconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Fuse News, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Berklee College of Music, Berklee Performance Center, Joyce Moreno

Music Interview: Fusion Violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and Jon Anderson Join Forces

I just have to use all my personal musical experience — classical music and jazz and rock and electronic sound — and not worry about where it fits.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Better Late Than Never, Brett Milano, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jon Anderson

Jazz Review: The Bad Plus Joshua Redman—Making Beauty Easily

With the galvanic addition of Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus is now made up of four intense virtuosos.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus

Fuse News: In March, Celebrity Series Will Help Us “Stave” Off Boredom

Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Stave Sessions

Jazz Review: Jazz Superstar Esperanza Spalding Thanks October

Esperanza Spalding is not simply beyond reproach – she is a young lioness the likes of which the jazz world has really never seen before.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Calvin Theater, Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese, Lyndon Rochelle

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