Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

June 21, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, June 5 Some musicians play with eyes closed and faces frozen in concentration, some are more animated, and then there is pianist Stefano Bollani. His exuberance ignites the music and the music fuels his exuberance in a mad spiral, his body contorting like a marionette with the…

June 14, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

505, June 3 Sometimes a review is not enough. One wants to thump a pulpit like some crazed evangelist and shout to the world that the god of music had taken human shape as Eric Harland’s Voyager, a quintet of such idiosyncratic musical personalities that sparks flew from every sonic…

June 11, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, June 1 On paper it looked a winning formula: two of the most admired and influential jazz pianists of the last half century, two grand pianos and a wide open musical sky. The possible blot was that Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock have clocked up at least a…