John Painter Hall, June 8 To hear the Joshua Redman Quartet within four days of Charles Lloyd’s band was to hear two of the most flexible and thrilling rhythm sections in contemporary jazz. Both shared the slippery bass playing of Reuben Rogers, teamed with drummer Eric Harland in Lloyd’s band…
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The Mango Balloon Volume 3 (Romero/Newmarket) Comedies are shorter than dramas because they find our boredom threshold faster. Music is the same: jollity palls sooner than ripping out our hearts. Few operate in both camps, and fewer still effect a balance. Guitarist Julian Curwin is one. When he first started…
City Recital Hall, June 4 In layering jazz into traditional and contemporary Greek music Charles Lloyd and Maria Farantouri miraculously avoid creating another anaemic cultural fusion (to join the world-wide infestation). The triumph is how remarkably intact and separate the two elements remain while intertwining, like two lovers whose individual…