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Spring Heel Jack: Songs and Themes
by Lyn Horton
Sometimes, music is made to be pleasant without presenting audacious and extreme challenges to the ear. The key is for that music to remain engaging. How differentiated the instrumentation is, the more chances the umbrella of engagement can be opened. The slightest edge, the slightest off-centeredness will be heard and remembered, and will expand the music's ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Mental Weather
by Lyn Horton
In the distinctly male world of jazz and improvised music, it is particularly good to hear music that sparkles with femaleness. The fact that a woman composes and plays that music is icing on the cake. Suddenly, everything seems to fit together. The gender. The sound. The dynamic. And nothing could identify this femaleness more than ...
Adam Rudolph with Hamid Drake and Yusef Lateef: Moving Pictures at UMass Amherst
by Lyn Horton
Adam Rudolph: Moving Pictures The Magic Triangle Series Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst February 28, 2008 It is a daunting task to shape a music that incorporates and combines the characteristics of traditional music from a wide range of cultures. For one thing, it is ...
Three Pianists Address the Keyboard at Northampton Center for the Arts, MA
by Lyn Horton
Rob Schwimmer, Arturo O'Farrill, Larry Willis The World of Piano Series, Northampton Center for the ArtsNorthampton, Massachusetts February 1, 8, and 15, 2008 As a musical instrument, the omnipresence of a piano's sound commands attention. There is nothing that can sway us from the experience of the full-bodied sonorities. However, ...
Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday: Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959
by Lyn Horton
The mystique associated with musical artists who have passed away often preoccupies those who continue to maintain an avid interest in the past of those musicians. A question to ask though is: how can anyone possibly know the internal perils and joys of these intriguing artistic beings? No matter how much research is done or how ...
Joe McPhee: Intimate Conversations
by Lyn Horton
Intimacy permeates many kinds of relationships. It is rare that in one context, several can be examined simultaneously. But the language of music coupled with the poetry of viewpoint can cover descriptive territory without too much hardship to demonstrate that intimacy requires depth of connection and can stretch the parameters for gaining insight and paying attention. ...
William Parker's Quartet: Continuing the Story in Vermont
by Lyn Horton
William Parker Quartet Vermont Jazz Center Brattleboro, Vermont January 12, 2008 Devotion to a steadfast belief manifests itself through persistence of doing, the doing coming down to the choices made by the believer. Bassist William Parker embodies the ultimate believer: he not only believes in the evolution ...
Paul Murphy: Excursions
by Lyn Horton
Hidden away on small unknown labels is music that needs to be heard. A case in point is Excursions, featuring pianist Larry Willis and percussionist Paul Murphy. This music evokes no largesse, only thoughtfulness and solace. Abstraction is not as much the focus in this music as it is a concise, direct ...
Dana Leong: Anthems of Life
by Lyn Horton
According to some dictionaries, anthems connote praise and sacredness. In most cases they are songs of celebration. Life, and how we live it creatively and productively, is to be celebrated as praiseworthy and sacred. Multi-instrumentalist and composer, twenty-seven year-old Dana Leong does this effectively, vividly and without hesitation. On Anthems of Life, Leong has combined his ...
Fred Anderson and Chad Taylor: Polishing the Sound at UMass
by Lyn Horton
Fred Anderson and Chad Taylor Solos and Duos Concert Series University of Massachusetts at Amherst December 5, 2007 The function of superlatives is to thrust what is being described into a zone of excellence considered untouchable. Such hyperbolic words can paradoxically lose power, especially when used so much they become ...
