York Theatre, May 31 Confession time. I know critics aren’t supposed to deal in the currency of expectations, but I’d half-envisioned being smoothed into a state of erasure by a Larry Carlton concert, or exhausted by the unrelenting good taste. More fool me. Yes, Carlton’s guitar playing was impeccably tasteful,…
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As bed fellows go, traditional Greek music and jazz might have seemed as likely as Mahler and Abba. But then Charles Lloyd, one of jazz’s most revered saxophonists, heard one of Greece’s most cherished contraltos, Maria Farantouri, and she affected him the same way that Billie Holiday had done when…
Life to Everything (Edition/Planet) The title comes from a wonderful Plato quote: “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” Phronesis has certainly been stimulating minds and imaginations since the Anglo-Danish band burst into life in 2005, and this…