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Jazz Album Review: Tobias Meinhart’s “The Painter” — A Very Pretty Picture

July 30, 2021
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This is state-of-the-art modern jazz with an up-and-coming lead soloist, well-chosen guests, and a dream rhythm section.

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May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

May 9, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Jazz Album Review: A Confidently Rousing “La Marseillaise” from Pianist Laszlo Gardony

October 25, 2019
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One of the strengths of Laszlo Gardony’s playing is his confident insistence on what he is doing, his impressive self-assurance.

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Jazz Preview: Luciana Souza’s “The Book of Longing” & Yellowjackets

November 5, 2018
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Why this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?

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Jazz CD Review: Luciana Souza’s “Book of Longing” Tells a Compelling Story

September 4, 2018
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With this album, Luciana Souza has created her own indelible “book” of songs that ache and celebrate, muse and regret, dream and mourn.

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Jazz CD Reviews: Laszlo Gardony: “Serious Play”; Tim Ray: “Windows”; Yoko Miwa: “Pathways”

July 23, 2017
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These three area pianists offer up a mini-festival of satisfying keyboard music.

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