Music

Jazz and jazz fusion: Hey Love! Lucy Yeghiazaryan ( spotify ). Vocal jazz by an Armenian-American. Hey Love!" was recorded at the historic Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and released by La Reserve Records. The album serves as an affectionate, deeply felt tribute to the Great American Songbook, while also reflecting a personal milestone: it is her first recording as a new mother. Produced alongside Richard Stepanian and arranged with her husband, tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart, the record features a heavy-hitting hard bop lineup including Peter Washington (bass), Kenny Washington (drums), Tardo Hammer (piano), Bruce Harris (trumpet), and guest pianist/vocalist Johnny O'Neal. Rather than treating standards as distant historical museum pieces, Hey Love! approaches them with warm intimacy and direct emotional connection. Critics have highlighted how the album frames love in its many forms—family, artistic fellowship, and romantic partnership—grounded in an unhur...

Sucked into the bile by a NY Times article by David Allen. (The Times has lifted the limit of 10 free articles, so moving forward looks like free articles.) "As ticket sales fall, donors become more influential and orchestras operate ever more like corporations, where should power lie? Rather than debate such matters calmly, the richest orchestra in the world has devolved into a morass of anonymous quotations, destructive leaks and social media bile." I've always felt that this regime likes the evolution of more poor, more influence for donors.  Adam Nagourney and Robin Pogrebin broke the original story in the Times . 8/15/26 Some are taking what David Allen said as wrong in Slipped Disk .