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Updated. Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read More[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music, and theater that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music and theater that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreUPDATE: Either/Orchestra’s 25th anniversary concert comes to New York—an unforgettable confluence of talent revisiting more than two decades of memorable compositions and arrangements.
Read MoreFor a genre that supposedly expired in the 1950’s, the big band’s vital signs seem remarkably robust here in Boston. By J. R. Carroll A welcome recent addition has been the compositions and arrangements of tenor saxophonist Florencia Gonzalez, which layer vivid sonorities and intricate counterpoint atop Afro-Uruguayan candombe and Argentinian tango. She brings her…
Read MoreBy J. R. Carroll This review/commentary will focus on Coltrane’s recordings with the Miles Davis Quintet for Columbia (in October 1955 and June and September 1956) and Prestige (in November 1955 and May and October 1956), as well as a variety of sideman dates and nominally leaderless sessions, many of which have recently been reissued…
Read MoreBen Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Reviewed by J. R. Carroll During an interview in Japan in 1966, John Coltrane was asked what he would like to be in ten years. Coltrane replied, “I would like to be a saint.” Lewis Porter, author of the definitive study John Coltrane:…
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