WILL FRIEDWALD
Mr. Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The New York Sun and…
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The Music Is So Cool During Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Holiday Concerts That Even Santa Approves
Judging by attendance and by the schedule — six performances, which is at least twice as many as usual — the seasonal outing is certainly the JALC’s most popular program.
Matt Wilson and His Tree-O Re-Animate Familiar Seasonal Themes With a Uniquely Postmodern Jazz Kind of Energy
The Tree-O can take a song from 1853 and show that it’s still relevant, that it is yet capable of inspiring creative musicians to do something surprising and original with it.
There Are American Godzilla Movies, So Why Not a Japanese ‘Lord of the Rings’?
‘The War of the Rohirrim’ is part of a 30-year trend that has seen every successful franchise, from ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’ to ‘The Sopranos,’ get a prequel of some sort.
Who Better To Lead a Tribute to the Jazz Messiah, John Coltrane, Than His Son, Tenor Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane?
Coltrane this week is playing for the first time at Smoke, launching the 12th edition of the annual festival named after his father.
Bridging the Gap Between Social and Stage Dancing, Caleb Teicher and Eyal Vilner Offer ‘A Very Sw!ng Out Holiday’
The performance is capped by a 30-minute second set in which the more daring in the house have the chance to join the dancers and each other on stage as the orchestra plays.
Would It Be Wrong To Ask for More From One of the Most Exuberantly Entertaining Jazz Pianists of His Generation, Emmet Cohen?
In the 1950s and ’60s, the major musicians — especially the superstar pianists — easily made two or three albums a year, which is exactly what this correspondent feels Cohen should be doing.
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