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September 20: LTO@ICA Boston

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:25 am
by bobappleton
Was anyone on the Forum at last night's gig with George Russell and the LTO at the ICA in Boston? It would be great to have short report or review. Especially for those of us who wished we could have been there!

Where were you last night? I was in Toronto at Chalkers Pub listening to the amazing Bob Brough quartet with David Braid, Artie Roth and Kevin Dempsey. The quality of this music is still one of the world's best kept secrets ;)

b

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:11 pm
by bobappleton
Just received this from Alice Russell. I hope it's OK to share - and I'm sure that it is:
<<...it was possibly the best concert we've ever produced! Sheila Jordan reprised "You Are My Sunshine."--G got up and conducted and danced on African Game and It's About Time, and the musicians were magnificent. It was the last concert, I think; there wasn't a dry eye in the house, and it couldn't have been more wonderful.>>

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:23 pm
by bobappleton
A Review (by a classical music writer) from the Boston Phoenix:

It’s about time... By LLOYD SCHWARTZ September 25, 2008

The most roof-raising was the evening with the George Russell Living Time Orchestra. Perhaps the festival’s most poignant moment came when the legendary master of avant-garde jazz, now 85, got up from his first row seat and, a bit shaky, began to dance and conduct extended sections of his 1983 through-composed The African Game, which
alternates sounds of the jungle (lion-roaring trombones) with the cacophony of modern technology, and his love letter to his wife, Alice, the ballad “It’s About Time.â€