Reviews music

Rock and roll is alive and well - and didn't need a Zeppelin clone to prove it in 2018.

The latest album from the celebrated English early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico, 'In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in Exile,' is a beautiful sequence with works by John Dowland, William Byrd, and their contemporaries – and a decidedly melancholy affair.

This memorable set from Dizzy Gillespie's longtime drummer is one of the best small-group jazz albums of recent vintage, full of rhythmic play and meaty assertiveness with a Latin lilt.

If you pine for the heady days of Joni Mitchell and Poco, then Pale Mara should soothe your soul.

'Three Songs' by Katie Mullins is not to be missed. It’s glorious!

With 'Helix Pattern Blues,' Hemhora and the Glass Band provides catchy rhythms and deliciously quirky alt-rock.

'Lake Placid Blue' is a gorgeously laid-back album with soft energy and grand lyricism.

Composer Yevgeniy Sharlat takes Bach's English Suite No. 2 as a starting point, and engineers energetic rhythmic surprises, ear-catching counterpoint, and busy, angsty drama in a prismatic work of accessible modernism.

The Tesla Quartet makes a strong debut with Ravel and more, while Amit Peled plays Bach's Cello Suites 1-3 on Pablo Casals' instrument.

Israeli pianist Tomer Gewirtzman gave a glowing performance of a challenging program of Beethoven, Brahms, and three very different Russian composers.