This is the debut album of a New York ensemble, named Spooky Actions, that features the work of Anton Webern, an early twentieth century composer of serialist, or atonal, m…
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At best, "Sax Across America" is the type of music you’d hear when you are trying to talk to a warm body at your bank which recently has been swallowed up by a larger bank …
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At the start of Christian McBride’s new CD, "Vertical Vision," there is a very short introduction called ‘Circa 1990’ that reveals what the rest of the pieces aren’t suppos…
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Plutarch wrote that "Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord." Kenny Garrett explores hard-driving dissonance on opening tracks of his recent release "Standard o…
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Songs and Lullabies is an extremely apt title on this duo recording by pianist Fred Hersch and vocalist Norma Winstone. Accompanying Winstone, Hersch plays elegantly enough…
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