May 2011    Albums

Sweet Thunder
Delfeayo Marsalis

Bill Beuttler reviews album that pays tribute to Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder, originally a tribute to Shakespeare

April 2011    Albums

Turnaround
The Dave Liebman Group

Newly minted NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman has been releasing a lot of albums lately. Now here’s another one too good to let pass without mention, on which Liebman and his longstanding quartet successfully take on the music of Ornette Coleman. Liebman’s album...

December 2010    Albums

No Beginning, No End
Kenny Werner

To suffer the death of a child, writes Kenny Werner in the notes to “No Beginning, No End,” is “the worst nightmare of a parent’s life.” Werner knows that anguish intimately: His only child, Katheryn, was killed in an auto accident four years ago at age...

November 2010    Albums

The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock
Conrad Herwig

Trombonist Conrad Herwig has collected three Grammy nominations by Latinizing the music of important jazz modernists, beginning with John Coltrane and following with Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter. No surprise, then, that he’s at it again with The Latin Side...

09/05/06    Concerts

Chilly temperatures and threatening skies Saturday night prevented the sixth annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival from outdrawing its elder and more famous rival in Newport, R.I., for the second year in a row. But New England closed out its summer festival season...