WILL FRIEDWALD
Mr. Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The New York Sun and…
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Baritone Ari Axelrod’s Performances Gain Added Poignance With Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Axelrod’s new album, ‘A Place For Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway,’ focuses on how songs like ‘Somewhere’ have become signifiers of Jewish vitality and resilience.
Wynton Marsalis, With Inspiration From Gerry Mulligan, Sets Jazz at Lincoln Center on a New Course
Mulligan once raised the idea of programming a season ‘where we just take all the segregation out of it, and just play the music the way we envisioned it when we were playing it.’
Daniel Glass Trio Demonstrates That Jazz and Rock Are Inherently More Alike Than They Are Different
The Glass Trio draws on music from both sides of the aisle, as they say in Congress, and approaches all of these works on a level playing field, without any kind of inherent bias.
Love Is in the Air on Gene Bertoncini’s New Album of Duets With Four Great Instrumentalists
The album, ‘Love Like Ours,’ is a series of encounters between Bertoncini and vibraphonist Mike Mainieri, trumpeter Terrel Stafford, violinist Sara Caswell, and drummer Jeff Hamilton.
Kurt Elling’s Latest Run at Birdland Features the Singer at His Most Accessible
Yet the program is hardly a concession to commercialism: The main program’s songs are mostly by cutting edge jazz composers of the 1970s.
Early January Is the Hottest Time on New York City’s Jazz Calendar
The central tent pole has long been the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference. In the post-pandemic period, the major industry event is Jazz Congress.
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