Music Review: Branford Marsalis Quartet cerebral, supercharged in Mechanics Hall performance
(WorldNews Music)

Music Worcester chose to launch its 160th season in a way appropriate to the new and emerging Worcester: casually confident, professional, cerebral, and energy-wise supercharged. Yes, the Branford Marsalis Quartet kicking off the season Friday night at venerable Mechanics Hall was all of those adjectives and more. Great jazz is its dizzying blend of composition and improvisation, an ever-expanding coiling of riffs and returns, traded-around articulations that envelope an audience, looping [...] ......