Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

The Studio, March 7 7.5/10 Not everyone gets the Necks. The gentleman in front of me hated them. While his wife slept he either squirmed as if undergoing torture or checked his messages, and at the end he was dumbfounded by the surrounding applause. But then where most music is…

Concert Hall, February 25 9/10 Jazz, like all improvisational idioms, is a dialogue, and it is this element that Wynton Marsalis especially emphasises in his Swing Symphony – that and the rhythm implicit in the title. Marsalis’s third symphony is a seven-movement work for unamplified jazz band and orchestra, and…