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Fuse Jazz Review: The Bad Plus Celebrates Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”

Feb 172013

Postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus plays some of the prettiest Stravinsky ever performed.

Fuse Music News: Beantown Native Son Peter Rowan Returns to Teach Lessons From “The Old School”
I confess: I also was among those who witnessed Peter Rowan play a zillion years ago, circa 1970, when he sang like an angel with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
Fuse Music News: The Tepid Lineup for Boston’s “Outside the Box” Festival
Boston’s Outside the Box festival falls far short of its stated mission to be “revolutionary” or “world class.”
Fuse Jazz News: Happy 99th Birthday Sun Ra! A Local Celebration Tonight
Come celebrate the music of Sun Ra: legendary jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet, theatrical ringmaster, and lyricist of the extra terrestrial.
Fuse News Appreciation: Ray Manzarek Founding Member of The Doors Dies at 74
Ray gave us permission to peek through his doors of perception and a chance to live, for just for a few hours, in his world.
Fuse News: How Loud Does David Koch’s Money Talk in Boston?
Mayer’s report deals with David Koch throwing his weight around at WNET and PBS. Unfortunately, she does not talk about whether Koch’s powerful presence has influenced WGBH.