Herbie Hancock

Jazz Album Review: Drummer Tony Williams’s “Play or Die” — Electrifying Eclecticism

July 2, 2022
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Play or Die brilliantly showcases what Miles Davis heard in Tony Williams’ playing: variety of sound within a restricted framework.

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Jazz Album Review: “Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund”

August 18, 2021
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There’s a pleasing variety in this collection, which serves up valuable music that might not have otherwise been heard.

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Jazz Review: A Dispatch from the 39th Montréal Jazz Festival

July 7, 2018
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Among the festival’s highlights: pianist-singer Jeremy Dutcher, who arrived on the stage of the tiny space Gésu dressed in shorts and a long flowing black robe with a hood.

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Jazz Week 2014: Wall-to-Wall Jazz with No Walls

April 24, 2014
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Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.

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Jazz Album Review: Herbie Hancock — A Musician of Nearly Endless Curiosity

January 5, 2014
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Amongst the acoustic live sessions, listeners should be delighted with the Chick Corea-Herbie Hancock duets.

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: August 2010

August 3, 2010
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By J. R. Carroll Vacation time? Not for the musicians of New England. An amazing amount of live music this month, not a little of it free and open to the public. Photo by Denise Sullivan Treme trombonist and vocalist Glen David Andrews bridges gospel and New Orleans jazz at Johnny D’s in Somerville, MA…

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