Category: Concert Reviews

June 9, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Basement, May 30 You see it in all fields of life, from dancing to gardening and from surgery to football: some people are born with a gift, others with steely determination. The great have both. Whatever Richard Bona’s determination quotient the New York-based Cameroonian was certainly born to make…

June 6, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Basement, May 27 The mating of music and venue is always critical. The last time I heard New York’s The Bad Plus they were on an outdoor festival stage, and all the nuance so in evidence here was lost: nuance that is not just the icing on their cake,…

May 18, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

505, May 6 It’s the sort of sound they might outlaw in certain countries as being against the best interests of some deity. Joseph Tawadros’s oud has been surrounded, cushioned or jostled by instrumentation ranging from organ to banjo to the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and most often by James Tawadros’s…