Concert Hall, June 13 9.5/10 This was exhilarating and tinged with greatness. The Wayne Shorter Quartet has been together 16 years, and its unique approach to jazz has developed further since its 2010 visit; grown farther from its antecedents, whether they be Shorter’s own projects (including Weather Report), his association…
Category: Concert Reviews
Joan Sutherland Theatre, June 4 6/10 No show has had a high-contrast beginning, middle and end quite like this. Of course it’s not often one’s middle name becomes the catalyst not just for a new persona, but for a whole body of work. Esperanza Spalding took time out from her…
City Recital Hall, June 3 7.5/10 The moment came in Skylark. The almost relentlessly buzzing imagination and invention fell away as Gary Versace began a piano solo so soft, so sparse and so fragile that Ulysses Owens stopped playing the drums altogether and Clark Sommers provided the barest underpinning on…