If you blinked on Tuesday night, you might have missed the Austrian trio known as Mario Rom’s Interzone, easily one of the most entertaining and scintillating acts at this year’s festival. I have yet to hear a group of musicians — anywhere — with a more serious sense of play. The band opened its first […]
George Colligan
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Jazz Fest 2015, Day 5: Ron reviews Fred Hersch, Julia Hulsmann, and George Colligan
Fred Hersch was so perfectly in command of everything he played at Kilbourn Hall Tuesday night that you would hardly have noticed anything subversive going on. But toward the end of his set I realized that I knew the ballad he was playing very well, but at that moment I didn’t know it at all. […]
