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Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet at the Regattabar

Sometimes it takes a few minutes for me to adjust to Kurt Rosenwinkel.

By: JON GARELICK | March 07, 2013

Fred Hersch Trio at Scullers

Fred Hersch's output as a composer includes an orchestrated setting of poems from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass as well as other art-song fare for singers.

By: JON GARELICK | March 01, 2013

Ran Blake & Dominique Eade at Scullers

Most virtuosos leave you scratching your head asking, "How did he play that?"

By: JON GARELICK | March 01, 2013

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This Spring's Jazz & World music shows

The saxophonist Chris Potter started drawing attention when he joined the group of legendary bebop trumpeter Red Rodney as an 18-year-old Manhattan School of Music student.

By: JON GARELICK | February 28, 2013

Kevin Harris’s Museum of sound

Kevin Harris learned piano by playing gospel music in church.

By: JON GARELICK | February 14, 2013

Pablo Ablanedo Octet(o) at the Regattabar

Jazz composers don't put together octets to be loud; they do it because they're thinking orchestrally — varied colors and voicings, and in the case of Pablo Ablanedo's Octet(o), contrary rhythmic motions.

By: JON GARELICK | February 11, 2013

Patricia Barber at the Regattabar

Patricia Barber is back. The 57-year-old singer, songwriter, and pianist emerged from her home base of Chicago in the early ’90s with a string of recordings that established her equally in all three categories.

By: JON GARELICK | February 01, 2013

''Baritone Madness'' at Scullers

Scullers booker Fred Taylor called the “Baritone Madness” show at the club Thursday night “a real put-together.”

By: JON GARELICK | January 31, 2013

The Whammies catch the Steve Lacy bug

The American soprano saxophonist and composer Steve Lacy (1934-2004) once described jazz as a "bug" — the kind of virus that can "bite" you any time and any place, and that you can't shake.

By: JON GARELICK | January 23, 2013

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Too hot to handle: This winter's jazz concerts

It's tough enough that there are several rescheduled events that were pushed into the new year by Hurricane Sandy and other factors, but how to squeeze everything else into a list of 10? Mark your calendars.

By: JON GARELICK | December 21, 2012

Head turners: Jazz acts of 2012

In a year in which WGBH-FM gutted its jazz programming and the Atlantic took the predictable broadside swipe at the health of the genre, there were signs of vibrant life everywhere.

By: JON GARELICK | December 18, 2012

'Rebirth of Third Stream' at NEC: playing in the cracks

A definition of the term Third Stream probably comes best by way of illustration: a teacher known for his jazz and klezmer background coaching a progressive bluegrass band by telling them to listen to a late-Beethoven string quartet.

By: JON GARELICK | November 19, 2012

Dave Douglas Quintet + Aoife O'Donovan at the Regattabar

Dave Douglas told the audience at the Regattabar that the inspiration for his new album, Be Still (Greenleaf), was a challenge from his mother before she died in 2011 — a list of hymns she wanted him to play.

By: JON GARELICK | November 16, 2012

Michael Formanek Quartet at the Regattabar

The music of the Michael Formanek Quartet offers the listener a kind of tough love.

By: JON GARELICK | October 05, 2012

Live jazz from John Scofield Trio at the Regattabar

Not long into his encore during the first set at the Regattabar Thursday night, guitarist John Scofield stopped the band, walked across the stage and took the sheet music from Steve Swallow's stand.

By: JON GARELICK | September 21, 2012

Live jazz from Joe Lovano, Eric Hofbauer, and Taylor Ho Bynum

Is there a more buoyant personality in jazz than Joe Lovano?

By: JON GARELICK | September 17, 2012

Fall jazz preview

Bean bags
The former day of celebration has now grown to encompass one long weekend that includes ticketed club and concert events.

By: JON GARELICK | September 19, 2012

The church, R&B, country, jazz, and Ray Charles

Ultimate fusion
Pan-stylistic fiddler and Berklee professor Matt Glaser was trying to come up with a selling point for his bosses at school on an idea for his American Roots Program — a symposium on blues, country music, and jazz.

By: JON GARELICK | September 04, 2012

Newport Jazz Festival 2012

Too hot to cover
Every year the Newport Jazz Festival confronts with the same dilemma: how to objectively judge music presented under such variable conditions.

By: JON GARELICK | August 10, 2012

Christian aTunde Adjuah Scott takes issue

No identity crisis
Since one of the first times I heard Christian Scott — at Sweet Lorraine's in New Orleans — he's always had an edge.

By: JON GARELICK | August 07, 2012

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