George Garzone

Jazz Album Review: Steve Smith & Vital Information’s “Time Flies” — Deft and Muscular

July 13, 2023
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“Time Flies” offers approximately two hours of outstanding jazz, created by true masters with no other agenda than to play their asses off with the tape rolling.

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Jazz Review: Harvey Diamond Quintet at the New School of Music

February 27, 2018
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There was an easy depth to the music, if such is possible, as if the musicians were digging in hard, but with the relaxed assurance that comes of a shared vision.

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Fuse Concert Review: Celebrating the Life and Music of Pianist/Composer Jan Jarczyk

November 11, 2014
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A vigorous and admiring tribute to Jan Jarczyk, a man his daughter called “a whirlwind of creativity.”

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Jazz CD Review: A Worthy “Elvin Jones Project”

August 17, 2012
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Bassist Michael Feinberg has done many things right in his richly varied tribute to the great percussionist Elvin Jones.

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Music Review/Commentary: The Fringe in Context — Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival II

December 4, 2011
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Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the second, which focuses on The Fringe and some of the qualities that make the trio special in the world of jazz.

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Music Review — The Fringe, Dave Liebman, & Rakalam Bob Moses: All In, In Deep

November 11, 2010
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In less than an hour, there had been enough substance to send the first set crowd into the Cambridge night shaking their heads in amazement, spirits lifted, all else forgotten for a brief still time. Another houseful of listeners waited on the sidewalk for the second set. By Steve Elman The best way to hear…

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: November 2009

November 2, 2009
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By J. R. Carroll After the New England Conservatory’s well-deserved turn in the limelight last month in celebration of the 40th anniversary of their jazz studies program, the Berklee College of Music comes to the fore in November with a strong series of performances on- and off-campus. Photo by Jesus Angel Hernandez de Rojas, available…

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