Review of Kurt Elling at Tanglewood Jazz Festival

Sept. 1, 2007 performance reviewed by Dave Conlin Read
Kurt Elling’s concert Saturday night in Ozawa Hall felt like a festival in itself. He seems to inhabit several decades at once and his repertoire has pan-hemispheric roots. For someone with a body of work so clearly the product of a restless and boundless artistic temperament, he [...]

Review of Hugh Masakela at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival

August 31 performance reviewed by Dave Conlin Read.
Hugh Masakela is a miracle worker; he got the oldest audience this side of Pleasant Meadows to rise and be funky during his set that opened the 2007 Tanglewood Jazz Festival. He accomplished the feat by exhorting them to get off their “numb bums” an hour into his [...]

James Taylor wins a new fan

August 24, 2007 performance, reviewed by Jamie Goldenberg.
(Editor’s note: see Ms. Goldenberg’s photos from the concert.)
This review really begins Thursday night around 10:30 when my phone rang. It was a favor/invitation/opportunity: the NewBerkshire.com photographer couldn’t make it to the JT concert at Tanglewood, and did I want to cover it? My first response was to [...]

Photos of James Taylor’s One Man Band concert at Tanglewood

You can cycle through enlarged versions these photos by clicking on the first one. They are copyright 2007 NewBerkshire.com, and were taken by Jamie Goldenberg.

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Review of James Taylor’s One Man Band show at Tanglewood

August 24, 2007 performance reviewed by Ronald K. Baker.
The unseasonably cool weather lurking in the Berkshires for a week or so gave way to the warmth of a typical summer day as the overflow crowd gathered for Lenox’s favorite son, James Taylor and his accompanist, keyboardist Larry Goldings.
As concert time neared many on the lawn [...]