World Music

Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

May 15, 2014
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Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.

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Jazz Week 2014: Wall-to-Wall Jazz with No Walls

April 24, 2014
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Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.

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Concert Review: Gary Numan at the Paradise — A Friendly Kind of Intensity

March 26, 2014
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Yes, Gary Numan’s jumped a bandwagon, but the former new-wave hitmaker has done it with style.

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Music Preview: A Natural Transition for Singer Mili Bermejo

February 17, 2014
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“Music just comes, you know? You’re harvesting potatoes, and something happens and you have to put it immediately on paper.”

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Music Review: Favorite and Least Favorite Shows of 2013

January 1, 2014
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Fuse Music Critic Noah Schaffer’s favorite live music moments from the past year.

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Fuse Music Preview: Guinga Comes to Berklee

December 9, 2013
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“He’s someone who appears only once in a hundred years.”—Hermeto Pascoal

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Music Interview: A Talk with Singer Luciana Souza

December 3, 2013
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“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience of jazz. Even if I’m singing Brazilian music.”

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World Music Feature: A Prodigy Re-Emerges in Jerusalem – at 90

August 15, 2013
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If the music that can touch you so deeply with so few notes weren’t so magical, there’s also Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebru’s fascinating back-story.

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Fuse News Feature: The Nines Festival 2013 Preview

August 7, 2013
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There’s a festival just about every weekend, it seems. The newest is The Nines Festival.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 2, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.

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