Music

Eric Reed is perhaps best known as the pianist of choice for a variety of Wynton Marsalis’s ensembles in the early to mid-1990’s. But he has also worked with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, and many others. In recent years he has specialized in the music of Thelonious Monk on three albums: “The Dancing […]

Playing as part of the Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series, organist Edoardo Bellotti will put on a program of works by J.S. Bach, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, and others. Pieces will be performed at Christ Church, using both the Craighead-Saunders Baroque organ and the Hook & Hastings Romantic organ. Bellotti is an associate professor of organ, harpsichord, […]

Richie Ramone’s legacy isn’t founded purely on guilt by association with The Ramones. Whereas drummers that moved in and out of the legendary band’s ranks stuck to the high-speed, 4/4 format and played what they were told, Richie Ramone wrote songs (“Somebody Put Something in my Drink”), sang, and pushed the band into new directions […]

If you missed the sold-out performance of violinist Itzhak Perlman with the RPO in 2012, now is your chance to hear him with the Eastman School of Music’s Philharmonia. Neil Varon will conduct works by Dvorak and Brahms. The performance with Perlman will be of Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26 in G […]

I’ve always considered Sirens & Sailors a young band, despite the fact that it formed all the way back in 2005. Maybe that’s because the band keeps it fresh in a genre overrun by exaggerated histrionics and hysterics. This is brutally heavy music that fortunately doesn’t succumb to its own largess. There is a shit-ton […]

The members of this Golden State quintet all met while growing up in Hawaii, but didn’t start their musical journey together until crossing paths again in Santa Barbara. Iration combines elements of indie rock and pop with a funky island vibe — the product is a truly alternative take on reggae. The group’s rastafied rhythms […]