Category: Features – Archive

January 22, 2018 / Features - Archive

2017 Year in Review: Music

What were they thinking? Singer Dianne Reeves gave a performance at City Recital Hall that became the arena-rock version of jazz, with extended singalongs and massed phone lights waving in the air. She already had us eating out of her palm by doing what she does so well, so why…

January 20, 2018 / Features - Archive

Feeling Guilt in Trumptopia

I went with no expectations. Thirty-seven years as a critic does that to you. You absorb music or theatre not on your terms, but on that of the musicians, composers, actors, directors, designers and playwrights. The latter’s was my hat this time, and the destination was Washington DC, where Scena…

November 10, 2017 / Features - Archive

Terri Lyne Carrington – on a learning curve without end

By the age of 18 she was a veteran. She had, after all, been able to play the drums the first time she sat at them, aged seven. By 10 Terri Lyne Carrington had performed with the great jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, by 11 she had not only played with…