bestnom1000x50
All Authors >

JON GARELICK

Latest Articles

Christian-McBride-6053_list

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

list_ChristianScott_66

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

list_Metheny_66

Pat Metheny's Unity Band

All is One
Pat Metheny's career has in a sense been defined by his omnivorous curiosity.
By: JON GARELICK  |  July 27, 2012

jf4

Jazz death at ’GBH

Gone, gone, gone
"I don't know if we made a difference, but we had a hell of time," said Ken Field at the "WGBH Jazz Funeral" last week. True dat, Ken.
By: JON GARELICK  |  July 12, 2012

tw4

Tom Wetmore plays his band

Composer’s desire
Tom Wetmore's new The Desired Effect (Crosstown) is both tantalizingly familiar and utterly strange.
By: JON GARELICK  |  July 10, 2012

list_SurfaceToAir_66

Duke Robillard and Surface to Air work the tradition

Easy listening
It all comes from somewhere.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 26, 2012



Theo Bleckmann takes on Kate Bush

Role playing
It's easy to inflate an artist's reputation with words like "visionary," but in the case of Theo Bleckmann, it's apt.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 11, 2012

IMG_1241_list

Dr. John at the Paradise

ID Check
One of the things I've always liked about Dr. John is his ability to turn any music he touches into his own — Duke Ellington, Tin Pan Alley, Howlin' Wolf Blues.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 08, 2012

IMG_1012_list

Dengue Fever and Omar Souleyman at the Paradise

International sounds of love
I was hoping for cross-cultural pandemonium at the Paradise's double-bill of Dengue Fever and Omar Souleyman, and the two-hour show left me mostly satisfied.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 05, 2012

list_Halvorson_66

Mary Halvorson's enchanted wood; Plus, Ben Powell's new CD

Wild things
When guitarist Mary Halvorson began taking lessons with Joe Morris as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, she was excited about the prospect of playing duos with one of her guitar heroes.
By: JON GARELICK  |  May 31, 2012

list_Fringe_66

The Fringe at 40

Sophisticated primitives
"I'm feeling a little light-headed," George Garzone told the audience last Saturday at the Boston Conservatory Theater, closing his eyes and bringing a hand to his brow.
By: JON GARELICK  |  May 15, 2012



IRMA-THOMAS_list

The 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

New Orleans Notes
New Orleans Notes
By: JON GARELICK  |  May 04, 2012

list_esperanza_66

Esperanza Spalding’s “Society”

Charmed agenda
The first time I was knocked out by Esperanza Spalding, she wasn't even playing — she was talking.
By: JON GARELICK  |  April 18, 2012

GIANT041912_Hersch_list

Walt Whitman via Fred Hersch

A new "Song of Myself"
The pianist and composer Fred Hersch first encountered the poetry of Walt Whitman as a student at New England Conservatory in 1976.
By: JON GARELICK  |  April 19, 2012

GIANT041912_Tepfer_list

Jazz pianist and composer Dan Tepfer would take on The Goldberg Variations

Tepfer’s Bach
Jazz and Bach have always made good company.
By: JON GARELICK  |  April 19, 2012

list_KateMcGarry_66

Kate McGarry makes a feminist move on the standards songbook

In her own time
On a first listen to Kate McGarry's new Girl Talk (Palmetto), you might not suspect any special agenda — this is simply the kind of original, heartfelt treatment of a well-chosen mix of songs that the singer has led us to expect in her half dozen releases over the past decade. But listen again.
By: JON GARELICK  |  April 10, 2012



The Borgias TV

Review: Showtime’s The Borgias

Blood oaths
The second season of The Borgias (Sunday at 9 pm, Showtime) enters a crowded Sunday night field: HBO's Game of Thrones , AMC's Mad Men , even AMC's much discredited The Killing .
By: JON GARELICK  |  April 09, 2012

list_BillyHart_66

Billy Hart’s ongoing education

Masterful
Billy Hart still remembers his first drum "lesson."
By: JON GARELICK  |  March 21, 2012

list_MadMen_66

Mad Men tries to pick up the pieces

Morning after
"Is it my imagination, or is the lobby full of Negroes?"
By: JON GARELICK  |  March 21, 2012

JAZZ_2248_Hart_list

New discs, new shows

Spring leaves
This season is chock full of jazz goodies.
By: JON GARELICK  |  February 28, 2012

poemjazz4

Poemjazz is for real, man!

Dig it!
Listen: Robert Pinsky's PoemJazz .
By: JON GARELICK  |  February 22, 2012


<< first  ...< prev  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |   next >...  last >>

2 of 16 (results 310)

Most Popular