State Theatre, August 8 James Morrison and Megan Washington bring out the best in each other. She is such an idiosyncratic singer and performer as to shrug aside all the baggage of trying to sing standards “authentically”, and just give them the Megan Washington treatment. She makes the songs hers;…
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Lucidity (Jazzland) Were Lucidity the soundtrack, you wouldn’t want to be the subject of the film. On its 12th album the Norwegian/Swedish Atomic makes an art-form of causing disquiet, so even when the music is elegiac in the way we have come to expect of Scandinavian improvisers it is usually…
The Basement, August 6 Improvising should be a high-wire act with no safety net. As the musician creates and responds, micro-decisions are made much faster than normal thinking. Meanwhile instincts for aesthetics and structure are in play, as is experience, technique and character. Put two improvisers together and making music…