David Cameron has lately been engaging fruitfully with external political thinktanks (including, I should say, Demos).
Bryony Lavery can work fruitfully with Frantic Assembly and write plays entirely on her own, too.
Any inference that Disney, Clear Channel or any other corporate producer is organically unable to collaborate fruitfully with writers, composers and directors is incorrect.
The impulse had less to do with an encroaching conservatism than with an aim, provoked by Berio's music, to engage more fruitfully with historical precedents and forebears.
(Chinen) Mary Halvorson (Friday and Saturday) Ms. Halvorson, a bright and constitutionally restless guitarist, has recently been working fruitfully with a quintet, drawing on aspects of postbop tradition.
But it intersected fruitfully with contemporary European developments like Group Zero and Arte Povera, played an essential role in Op Art and helped spawn a version of Conceptual Art that valued the collaborative, the implicitly political and the ephemeral.
(Chinen) ★ Peter Evans's Zebulon Trio (Thursday) Peter Evans, a trumpeter with an expressive command of timbre and texture, recently recorded fruitfully with this trio, featuring John Hébert on bass and Kassa Overall on drums.
Otis's vocals, callow and sweet, are a perfect counterpoint to his spiky guitar work; his horn and string arrangements are irreproachable; and no one except Sly Stone experimented as much, or as fruitfully, with rhythm tracks, mixing drum machines and live percussion.
His initial promise has been borne out since in a diverse body of substantial works — including multiple symphonies, concertos and operas — through which he has grappled fruitfully with the contrasting tugs of modernity and history, Celtic folk traditions and Roman Catholic convictions.
(Chinen) ★ Andrew Cyrille's 21st Century Big Band Unlimited (Thursday) Mr. Cyrille, an important engine in avant-garde jazz for roughly the last 50 years, has recently been working fruitfully with much younger musicians — like the pianist Kris Davis and the bassist Eric Revis, with whom he'll appear at Winter Jazzfest on Friday night.
Throughout the concert Mr. Aimard's elegant rigor collided fruitfully with gestures toward tenderness, as in Debussy's prelude "Bruyères"; the twinkling, longing last of Schumann's five "posthumous études"; or the single encore, Elliott Carter's lucid yet ambiguous "Fratribute," performed as a tribute to Mr. Carter, who died on Nov. 5.
