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After a five-week tour across the United States, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, (LCJO) conducted by Wynton Marsalis played its last date in Symphony Hall on Sunday evening before its return to New York. The LCJO is the 17-piece touring orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the jazz...
Marsalis began the evening with a characteristically unequivocal statement of his mission: "We came here to swing." With his irrepressibly jocular style, he described the LCJO's commitment to the music of Duke Ellington while carefully distinguishing the group from a repertory band. Though the evening was devoted to Ellington...
Fleck explores seemingly diverse musical traditions and integrates their various elements into a revolutionary style of music that moves comfortably from the elegant melodies of a string quartet to the rolling bluegrass lines of the banjo. Highlighting the album is a trio of distinguished musicians--Bruce Hornsby, Chick Corea, and...
Another musical collaboration on the album, "Backwoods Galaxy," the eighth track, pairs Fleck's banjo with Chick Corea's piano and Branford Marsalis' tenor saxophone. The three musicians establish the song's complicated tone by first hammering out a funky, amorphous wall of sound. The banjo then sets up a...
Ronnie's foil is Kilmartin's baby sitter, Rosie (Katheryn Erbe). It would be easy to choke on this character's banal perfection, but Erbe somehow manages to flesh out a real person. While Rosie is usually too good to take, we are nevertheless swayed by Erbe's performance. Also...