Will Friedwald
Arts Feature Writer and Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
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nysun.com | Will Friedwald
Christian McBride‘Remembering Ray Brown Trio and Ursa Major’Streaming Through May 10Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer‘Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?’Mack Avenue JazzChristian McBride & Ursa Major‘More Is’ (EP)At 52, Christian McBride is a very solid example of a contemporary jazz musician who leads any number of different bands and different projects to express a wide range of musical impulses.
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willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
Pop! Goes The Ella - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Great Hits of Today(SSS #144 2025-03-19)download: <or> play online:Ella Fitzgerald had a fascinating relationship with Broadway: she had come up during a curious age in which white popular singers, especially Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, frequently were assigned to record new show tunes - including virtually all the major new Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe productions - but Black artists, not so much.
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nysun.com | Will Friedwald
‘Wonderful Town’New York City Center Encores!Through May 11For all of Leonard Bernstein’s staggering accomplishments in the field of classical music, it may well be that his most remarkable contribution to world culture is the trilogy of metro-centric Broadway musicals he composed between 1943 and 1957. After all, who doesn’t love “On the Town” and “West Side Story”? Set in New York, all three were major hits and immediate classics, and all have enjoyed significant revivals and national tours.
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nysun.com | Will Friedwald
Ron Carter 88th Birthday CelebrationThe Blue NoteThrough May 4If you haven’t been to a primetime show at the Blue Note in a while, let me remind you what it’s like: First of all, you’re packed in so tightly with the other jazz fans that you can barely move your arms to hold the spoon for your french onion soup. (Recommended.) Still, the forced intimacy has its upside in that you tend to get to know your neighbors. On Thursday night I shared a table with five ladies conversing en Espanol.
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nysun.com | Will Friedwald
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis‘Contemporary Jazz Masterpieces’Music Director: Steven FeifkeStreaming Through May 3Prior to Friday’s concert, I must confess, the phrase “Contemporary Jazz Masterpieces” kind of put me off. Of those three words, the only one that sparks any anticipation of something fun is the one in the middle; the title as a whole led me to expect something heavy and serious.
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it is now post time. looking forward to tonight's CLIP JOINT LIVE STREAM session with one of my favorite writers (and guys), DAVID HAJDU! @davidhajdu_ https://t.co/1vMwTl8p7x
At CLIP JOINT LIVE STREAM tonight, An evening with my favorite NEW YORKER writer - not to mention songwriter and raconteur - ADAM GOPNIK! (Who also gave me the number one blurb for the back cover of my new book, STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF NAT KING COLE.) https://t.co/nFI6tJE7gr
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