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…
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City Recital Hall, August 3 It is a sound that will live in the memory: Pandit Kaivalyakumar’s voice splitting the air with a force like nuclear fission. Without being overly loud its power was further magnified by the City Recital Hall’s resonant acoustics when he chose to fully unleash it.…
The Essential Recordings (Primo/Planet) Although born in New York Harry Belafonte spent eight childhood years living in Jamaica, and these would prove pivotal in his subsequent career. Long before words like “world” and “roots” had been inanely splattered across musical idioms Belafonte was exploring his Caribbean heritage alongside jazz, gospel,…