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Regina Spektor finds God, and MUNA channel a Year Six disco – the week’s best albums
- Regina Spektor’s eighth album opens with a strong gambit, as the Russian-American singer-songwriter describes an encounter with God on a New York street corner, conjuring this mystical visitation in cheerfully mundane terms: they decide to “grab a beer” and “we didn’t even have to pay / 'Cause God is God, and he’s revered”. Naturally, she has questions: “Why doesn’t it get better with time?” she wants to know, evoking the confusions and challenges of life with a particularly artful verse: “I jus
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'Jazz's past was made to seem thrillingly alive' – Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Montpellier Gardens, review
'Jazz's past was made to seem thrillingly alive' – Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Montpellier Gardens, review
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Bill Frisell Trio review – memorable journey with the quiet maestro
“We’re surrounded!” Bill Frisell exclaimed, blinking in unmistakable delight at the expectant intimacy of the packed Jazz Cafe on Monday. Across four decades of original composition, technical vision and jazz-improv audacity, the quiet Seattle maestro has become the Jimi Hendrix of contemporary music’s quirkier forms, revolutionising the palette of the electric guitar, and inspiring artists from avant-rockers to electronic producers. One of his most empathic partnerships has been this occasion
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T Bone Burnett’s NYC Tribute to Bob Dylan, With Sara Bareilles and Oscar Isaac Among the Cast, Is Worthy of a Bard: Concert Review
There’s a handsome backstory to Friday night’s concert “The Town Hall and T Bone Burnett Present a Tribute to Bob Dylan” — produced in partnership with the Bob Dylan Center — that went beyond present-day artists merely doing a set of covers. Dylan. New York City’s Town Hall. The two go hand-in-hand like whiskey and […]
