Steve Lacy

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Monika H. Band | Disguised As Umbrellas, We Slept

Self-released (2008)
Monika’s taste for leaping vocal lines likewise pushes the art-rock envelope.
By JON GARELICK | November 03, 2008

Cinematic

Empirical go to the movies, plus the Hot 8
Talking with Nathaniel Facey, the alto-saxophonist in the London band Empirical, you find it difficult at first to pin down where and how the quintet developed their unusual compositional style.
By JON GARELICK | July 28, 2008

Three nights

5LMN2, Revelation at the Beehive, and Geni’s shakuhachi
As usual, there was too much to see in a week that included avant-gardist Burton Greene at one end of the spectrum and crossover darling Diana Krall at the other.
By JON GARELICK | July 17, 2007

Little band with a big sound

Gypsy Schaeffer’s formal ingenuity, plus Berklee’s Jazz Revelation Records
Throughout my notes on the Boston quartet Gypsy Schaeffer, I’ve written “great tune.”
By JON GARELICK | July 03, 2007

Self help

JazzBoston boosts the scene with Jazz Week
In jazz, it’s always the iron age.
By JON GARELICK | April 18, 2007

Let ’em sing!

A year in jazz
Here, in no particular order, are some my favorite things from among the people, CDs, and performances I wrote about this year.
By JON GARELICK | December 18, 2006

Midwestern master

Roscoe Mitchell brings the word from Chicago
I was going to say Roscoe Mitchell laughs like Mutley. But that’s not it exactly.
By JON GARELICK | October 17, 2006

Tchicai/Kohlhase/Fewell

GOOD NIGHT SONGS | Boxholder
Despite the low-key instrumentation — two reeds, one guitar — and predominantly slow tempi, this disc offers new rewards on every spin.
By JON GARELICK | April 10, 2006

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