Lennox Theatre, January 19 Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro is to tango what Nigel Kennedy is to classical music. The 13 members dress in jeans or shorts, tee-shirts or singlets, and sport assorted shades, dreadlocks or baseball caps. Their leader and double bassist, Yuri Venturín, has an amplifier and speakers to…
Category: Concert Reviews
State Theatre, January 18 Perhaps it’s the absence of gravity, but exploring outer space via the music of Sun Ra for 57 years has made Marshall Allen the youngest 89-year-old man I’ve seen. Each time he detonated the incendiary device known as his alto saxophone the State Theatre’s glorious ceiling…
City Recital Hall, January 11 Had Ernest Rutherford not worked out how to split the atom science would only have had to wait until Ambrose Akinmusire came along. Where Rutherford used alpha particles Akinmusire uses something much more lethal: a trumpet. No other instrument seems to scythe through the…