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...triumphant year for jazz pianist Geri Allen. With her presence on two critically acclaimed albums, Allen showed the world that she can play in the company of jazz's most musically intimidating performers and still emerge with her brilliance untarnished...
When the legendary John Coltrane Quartet went through its final convulsions in 1966, music lovers the world over bemoaned the end of perhaps the greatest jazz rhythm section ever. Once drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner left Coltrane's group to pursue solo careers, a nearly telepathic musical link was severed. But while the breakup of The Quartet may have been a lamentable occurrence for listeners, for both Jones and Tyner it offered the chance to distance themselves from saxophonist Coltrane's towering shadow and to enhance their own reputations as leaders...
...past two years. He movingly demonstrated his growing mastery of Coltrane's licks with chorus after chorus of blowing in a style hauntingly evocative of his idol. His exploratory forays entered into the area of choked cries, multiphonics, and ever-multiplying expansions of the harmonic structure laid down by pianist Willie Pickens and bassist Neal Caine. Unfortunately, trombonist Delfayo Marsalis (of Marsalis name and fame) let down the intensity level established by the saxophonist due to his overly precise lines and conventional phrases...
...search of a murder: Tony, a flamboyantly gay barber; Barbara, a tough-doll beautician; Eddie, a shady dealer in antiques; the patrician Mrs. Shubert; and two other salon customers who are soon revealed as detectives. They're staking out the building's upstairs tenant, Isabel Czerny, a reclusive concert pianist. Sure enough, the unseen Isabel is murdered. O.K.-whodunit...
Dunster House Music Society. Cellist Julia Tom and pianist Simon Tom perform works by J.S. Bach, Dvorak, Shostakovich and Ginastera. Dunster House Library, 5:30 p.m. Free...