George Garzone
The McCoy Tyner Legacy Band, in a program called “Blues on the Corner” had it all: the unrelenting, all-enveloping power that was a hallmark of Coltrane’s bands, but also an attention to dynamics, detail, and, most important, melody.
A Boston jazz critic’s notebook — three shows at Regattabar and one at the Lilypad.
“Time Flies” offers approximately two hours of outstanding jazz, created by true masters with no other agenda than to play their asses off with the tape rolling.
There was an easy depth to the music, if such is possible, as if the musicians were digging in hard, but with the relaxed assurance that comes of a shared vision.
A vigorous and admiring tribute to Jan Jarczyk, a man his daughter called “a whirlwind of creativity.”
Bassist Michael Feinberg has done many things right in his richly varied tribute to the great percussionist Elvin Jones.
Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the second, which focuses on The Fringe and some of the qualities that make the trio special in the world of jazz.
In less than an hour, there had been enough substance to send the first set crowd into the Cambridge night shaking their heads in amazement, spirits lifted, all else forgotten for a brief still time. Another houseful of listeners waited on the sidewalk for the second set. By Steve Elman The best way to hear…
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