Word: jazzing
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...truly demanding there is now Aria, a music-themed five-star hotel in the picturesque Malá Strana district. It features 52 rooms and suites celebrating four musical genres and their best-known artists. Opera buffs can choose Mozart or Verdi, orchestral fans might prefer Debussy or Vivaldi; jazz lovers might go for Miles Davis while popsters can choose the Beatles. Each room has its own DVD/CD player and computerized jukebox with works of the featured artist. The library holds more than 1,000 books and some 2,000 CDs and DVDs. There's a small listening room...
...Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau seems to be pulling off a similar feat with much less fanfare and indignant old ladies in the similarly stuffy realm of classic jazz. Mehldau packages his music like a popular rock artist and has the quirky, rumpled good looks of an indie frontman. But it is the music that makes the man. For his latest album, Anything Goes, Mehldau tackles a collection of standards with his accomplished trio. Mehldau ably reinterprets songs by Thelonius Monk and Henry Mancini, his lithe playing superbly set off by the popping rhythm section...
...Mehldau’s idea of standards extends beyond the more traditional jazz fare, wherein lies much of his appeal to non-jazzheads (such as myself). Mehldau reinterprets Paul Simon’s wistful “Still Crazy After All These Years” as a perplexed and perplexing song that marvels at itself even as it brushes with indecision. The trio’s take of Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” is much more of a group piece, allowing bassist Larry Grenadier to shine on the insistent bassline that...
Anything Goes is simultaneously a tribute to the ongoing vitality of jazz in the right hands and some of the finest songwriting on offer...
Harvard’s Dance Program of the OFA presents its annual spring concert, featuring the work of student choreographers as well as professionals in the Boston dance scene, including Lazlo Berdo, Elizabeth Bergmann (director of the Dance Program), Jodi Allen and Adrienne Hawkins. See modern, ballet, jazz, and more; students and teachers dance together in this varied performance. Runs March 18 through March 20. Tickets $10 regular, $8 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Reiman Center for the Performing Arts in Radcliffe Yard...