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The 39-year-old flutist-saxophonist-composer has created a formidable body of work that has as much affinity with modern classical composers as with jazz luminaries.
Jay Clayton, a singer whose six-decade career encompassed freewheeling improvisation, lyrical songs and poetry, and the prescient use of electronics,
She sparred with avant-garde instrumentalists and used electronics to alter and extend her vocal palette. She was also at home in more conventional settings.
"Instead of scolding the ineptitude of the Harvard administration, why not decry what one faculty member has called the imposition of 'mob rule,' " writes one reader. Another writes, "To suggest that [Claudine Gay] did not have agency in her own downfall ignores some unfortunate facts."
These are Globe music writers’ favorites of 2023, 50 long-players spanning pop, jazz, hip-hop, rock, country, world music, Americana, and even a few less-definable genres.