Category: Concert Reviews

June 14, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

505, June 3 Sometimes a review is not enough. One wants to thump a pulpit like some crazed evangelist and shout to the world that the god of music had taken human shape as Eric Harland’s Voyager, a quintet of such idiosyncratic musical personalities that sparks flew from every sonic…

June 11, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, June 1 On paper it looked a winning formula: two of the most admired and influential jazz pianists of the last half century, two grand pianos and a wide open musical sky. The possible blot was that Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock have clocked up at least a…

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…