Arts Fuse Editor
The young baritone Will Liverman’s performances are full of spirit and a wide range of moods.
This was an artist who approached his singular craft with equal measures of exuberance and precision.
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This was a generous two-set show whose imaginative pacing spotlit exploratory jams and interesting reconstructions of classic Dead fare.
It might seem a stretch to pair drummer Andrew Cyrille’s disc with composer/trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s. But both spent time under the tutelage of the redoubtable Cecil Taylor, and it shows.
In this deeply enlightening study, Anthony Alan Shelton aims to set the record straight about how mask culture developed in Mexico as well as in Andean cultures.
The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.
Leon Bridges is the master of soft sensual tones, particularly when he intermingles the romantic and the steamy.
The Everly Brothers’ close harmony work was so sinuous it sometimes seemed close to witchcraft.
Author Appreciation: Historian Stephen B. Oates
No writer, historian, or filmmaker ever took me nearly as close to Abraham Lincoln the man as did Stephen B. Oates. I have always been indebted to him for that.
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