Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

505, August 4 9.5/10 Wisely it came last, because it couldn’t be trumped. The late Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman is one of the 20th century’s masterpieces; a sonic equivalent of the shattering sadness of Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Here it was played with almost frightening intensity, spawning a dialogue between Peter…

City Recital Hall, August 9 7.5/10 Brian Blade must spend a lot of time in airports. Eight weeks after the New Yorker was here with Wayne Shorter he was back, this time with the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel (with whom he has been playing all this century), in a trio…