John McLaughlin and Chick Corea’s band performed with heroic stamina and superhuman technique, turning the concert at the Rose Theater on Thursday into a tempest, extravagant in almost every sense.
Lou Reed’s gig at the Blender Theater on Thursday needed more tension and contrast and narrative control. In any case, it was still more impressive as a gesture from Mr. Reed than anything else.
For Livingston Taylor, who began writing songs at age 16 and has recorded 14 albums, this tiny Martha’s Vineyard house provides enough silence for him to hear his muse.
Wednesday’s concert at Carnegie Hall celebrated André Previn’s 80th birthday and showcased him in his various musical guises as pianist, composer and conductor.
Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, two luminaries of Brazilian bossa nova, engaged in an intimate musical dialogue between the smooth and the rough at Birdland on Wednesday.
The bright cast that ushered in a production by the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater on Wednesday brought Johann Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus” to vibrant life.
The rapper Pitbull raced through an hourlong set spanning a career history that looked a lot like a scrapbook culled from disparate fragments at S.O.B’s on Wednesday.
