Brazilian Whistle-Blower: Conservationist Roberto Burle Marx at the New York Botanical Garden  This show turned out to be more timely than the NYBG could have known when it began to organize what it billed as its “largest botanical exhibition ever.” – Lee Rosenbaum
Goodbye, Tula’s  It’s been a busy month at Tula’s, a jazz fixture in the US Pacific Northwest for more than two decades, as most of the top jazz musicians in Seattle are playing their last gigs at the club and it’s been a full house every night. – Doug Ramsey
Noah Preminger Group: ‘Zigsaw: Music Of Steve Lampert’  Ever on the frontier of experimentation, the adventurous tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger is aided by the complexity of Steve Lampert’s composition Zigsaw. – Doug Ramsey
Burnishing Bertoldo: The Frick Spotlights Donatello’s Pupil/Michelangelo’s Teacher  Bertoldo di Giovanni, a favorite of Lorenzo de’ Medici and now the subject of a compact but comprehensive Frick Collection survey, is a Florentine sculptor who has been overshadowed by his more illustrious teacher (Donatello) and revered pupil (Michelangelo). – Lee Rosenbaum
Recent Listening: Kerry Politzer’s ‘Diagonal’  Kerry Politzer, Diagonal: A Tribute To Durval Ferreira
The pianist recruits several of her talented Pacific Northwest colleagues for this album of pieces by a Brazilian composer whose works were central to the rise of bossa nova. – Doug Ramsey
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