Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

June 13, 2022 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Verbrugghen Hall, June 5 8/10 It’s a quicksilver quality, like light playing on water, or water dashing between rocks: the sound of motion and constant flux. Where most music and even most jazz settles into moods or patterns, this defied predictability because the drummer kept reinventing his statement of the…

April 27, 2022 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, April 11 7/10 There’s a particular warmth in the room. One that exceeds affection for the songs or for George’s singing and guitar-playing. Might it be that many of the couples in the packed State Theatre first kissed, danced or had sex to George’s music? Because this is…

April 25, 2022 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, April 6 8.5/10 The trick, of course, was not to copy, but to reinvent. So arrangers Matt McMahon and Bernard Rofe, the ACO and trumpeter Phil Slater made Solea their own. The work is the pinnacle of a masterpiece of 20th-century music: Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain…