WILL FRIEDWALD
Mr. Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The New York Sun and…
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Criminals in the Music Business — Who Knew? ‘Do Re Mi,’ Now Being Revived, Knew It Way Back When
‘Do Re Mi’ is a delightful piece of work that in 1960 suffered from bad timing: It arrived in the wake of a similar, fresher-feeling show that was a huge hit, ‘Bye Bye Birdie.’
10 New CDs of Rare and Remarkable Don Byas Recordings Should Burnish the Saxophonist’s Legend
If Byas isn’t commonly regarded as one of the all-time saxophone colossi, it’s only because his best music has been hard to hear. This amazing new release should change that.
How To Celebrate the Great Mildred Bailey? Start by Catching Daryl Sherman at Birdland
Sherman has felt enough of a spiritual kinship with the legendary lady to have recorded two albums and performed innumerable shows in her honor.
Latin Jazz Is Latest Stop on Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s ‘Journey’
A running theme of the evening is how modern jazz and Latin rhythms interact and conjoin with each other to form a whole new music.
Diversity Is the Name of the Game as Omar Sosa Quarteto Americanos Graces Birdland
Sosa’s notion of diversity includes moving between different styles of jazz associated with different parts of the globe, and an easy alliance between acoustic and electronic instruments.
A Larger-Than-Life Diva, Patti LuPone Tours America as She Celebrates 75 Years
We in the audience at Carnegie Hall expected a straightforward retrospective of the great leading lady’s life and work, and what we got was both that and something else.
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