Miguel Zenon let the music do the talking at Kilbourn Hall Monday night as his excellent quartet burned through selections from his latest album, “Tipico.” Zenon was front and center with his saxophone, but the band also boasts one of today’s greatest pianists, Luis Perdomo, and a superb rhythm section with Hans Glawischnig on bass […]
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Jazz Fest 2017, Day 4: Daniel reviews Dinosaur and Lera Lynn
The “Made in the UK” series continued to captivate on Monday night with the American debut of Dinosaur, led by trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd. The band — which includes the members of the Elliot Galvin Trio — makes spacey jazz that sounds wonderfully imaginative and restless, yet always feels in control. The quartet can […]
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Jazz Fest 2017, Day 3: Daniel reviews Holophonor and Elliot Galvin Trio
Holophonor plays a brand of jazz loaded with understated swagger and suave cool. Mentored by jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, the band is rooted in the past while resolutely looking toward the future, as evidenced by its early set on Sunday evening at The Wilder Room. The powerhouse rhythm section — drummer Jonathan […]
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Jazz Fest 2017, Day 2: Ron reviews Billy Childs, Eivør, and Gabriel Algeria Afro-Peruvian Sextet
Billy Childs opened his Kilbourn Hall show in a gallop and hardly let up throughout the hour-long set. He played the piano with the sort of wild abandon that can only come after decades of painstaking practice and extensive experience. His quartet — with Dayna Stephens on saxophone; Ben Williams, bass; and Ari Hoenig, drums […]
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Jazz Fest 2017, Day 1: Ron reviews Roberta Picket, Yggdrasil, and Tierney Sutton
Roberta Piket began her set at Hatch Hall, Friday night, with a kind of call and response between her right hand and her left on the Steinway grand piano. The dialog ranged from sparse melodies answered by blunt chords to lush clusters answered by pounding bass. Eventually all of this morphed into “Monk’s Dream,” the […]
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Bradd Addison Young’s surreal summer
Tomorrow is the last opportunity to catch “Faux Été” (“Fake Summer”), the solo show of Rochester-based artist Bradd Addison Young currently hosted at The Yards. Young’s mixed-media illustrations are fresh and strange, each pastel-toned picture a peek into a cartoonish, nostalgic narrative with a slightly ominous underbelly. His background is in studio art and graphic […]
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Defying gravity, all grace
Rochester Brainery Gallery Coordinator Jason Barber continues his curation of women-centric shows this month with Brittany Williams’ “Ascension.” Not only is the solo show by a young woman artist, but it exclusively features gorgeous portraits of young black women. The show’s title refers to Williams’ rising star in the art world, but also alludes to […]
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Mural series ‘Her Voice Carries’ lifts local women
Rochester-based artist Sarah Rutherford is in the midst of a new series of murals that spotlight local women who work to lift up the voices of others.
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Eastman Museum hosts Eugene Richards retrospective
Photographer Eugene Richards has been creating powerful, challenging images of some of the most overlooked people in America and beyond since 1968. His approach to storytelling also involves getting to know his subjects deeply. While his striking images provide a poignant look at racism, poverty, addiction, violence, cancer, family, aging, and wounded veterans, incorporating their […]
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‘Minimal Mostly’ exhibit highlights Minimalism and its legacy
The many sides of Minimalism are represented in “Minimal Mostly,” the newest exhibit curated by art
collector and dealer Deborah Ronnen
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Graphic novel ‘Instrumental’ tackles creative ambition
Rochester-based musician, artist, and writer Dave Chisholm’s new graphic novel, “Instrumental,” uses music as a means to consider existentialism, higher dimensions, and down-to-earth concerns with success. Through thoroughly engaging storytelling and enthralling illustrations, the book blends a fantastical adventure into ordinary creative lives and offers philosophy about the balance of talent, ambition, and power. “Instrumental” […]
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Elder artists present fresh work at Main Street Arts
Main Street Arts’ latest exhibit, “Re-emerging Artists,” showcases the work of Robert Marx and John Greene, two late-career artists whose art continues to evolve and gain new audiences. Nearly 70 drawings, paintings, and sculptures fill both rooms of the gallery’s first floor, as well as an additional space upstairs. The majority of the work is […]
