Steve Provizer
Bob Brookmeyer’s great contribution was to make it seem as though anything is possible — and permissible –in the big band context.
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The music on Accent’s album is lovely and the singers render the arrangements with skill and commitment.
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Singer Sara Serpa refracts, bends, suspends, and shifts sounds and syllables, creating a kind of linguistic limbo.
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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.
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I’ve never run across music like this and never had even a platonic notion of what such a hybrid would sound like.
Read MoreThe Curtis Brothers performance was a display of the mentoring system at its best.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard