Tag: Hilliard Greene
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The Other Tracks of the Week 08.06.24

Playing a French double manual harpsichord at the head of an ensemble, like gummy sap Léo Dupleix shapes pure intervals into sweet melodic patterns and shimmering harmonic planes. The clarinetist Harry Skoler assembles a winning rhythm section with Joel Ross on vibes, Dezron Douglas on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums as Red Brick Hill revisits childhood haunts and...

Tracks of the Week 07.10.23

Around the turn of the seventies, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad was the place to be as a hub of industrial development meant to furnish the needs of a thriving independent state, a pioneering educational centre conceived along Bauhaus lines which emphasised learning by doing and drew such luminaries as John Cage, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Kahn and...

Tracks of the Week 02.07.22

Summoning spectres to light the present, on the crackling centrepiece to her new album Jazz Codes the songwriter and spoken word poet Moor Mother reaches back beyond the birth of the form to the Fisk Jubilee Singers or to misters Tambo and Bones, under the limelights of Broadway or out there on the Mississippi River, broaching the devious and...