WILL FRIEDWALD
Mr. Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The New York Sun and…
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Singer Barb Jungr’s Version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ Is Powerful Enough To Change One Critic’s Opinion
Jungr has made a specialty of brilliant interpretations of composers from the era of rock and singer-songwriters, establishing that their music can be reconstructed and reinterpreted.
An Album Unlike Most Anything in Annals of Jazz or Musical Theater, ‘The Real Ambassadors’ Gets New Life
In the 1950s Dave and Iola Brubeck had the idea of creating a Broadway musical about the jazz experience starring Louis Armstrong. The music was just performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
An Innovative 1948 Work From Alan Jay Lerner and Kurt Weill, ‘Love Life,’ Gets Multiple Threads of New Life in 2025
A new Opera North production can be heard over the BBC; a cast album is soon available as a CD package from Capriccio Records; and there’s a new City Center Encores! production.
Frank Vignola, After Decades of Working With Les Paul, Fêtes Gene Bertoncini During ‘Guitar Night’ at Birdland
To celebrate the 88th birthday of the remarkable, Bronx-born virtuoso, Vignola gets help from two additional guitarists, John Pizzarelli and Pasquale Grasso.
The Ever Ebullient Cyrille Aimée Lights Up Birdland With ‘the Guitar Heroes’
Guitars are especially significant to Aimée’s oeuvre. She’s certainly worked more with guitars than any other instrument, including two early albums of voice-and-guitar duets.
Anat Cohen Impresses at Jazz at Lincoln Center as She and Her Brothers Launch a New Album, ‘Interaction’
The new release celebrates the 20th anniversary of an all-jazz label, Anzic Records, while the performance was heralded as a celebration of Cohen’s 50th birthday.
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