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Film Review: “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” — A Contrarian View

August 12, 2020
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This is not a music documentary, it’s a kind of jaunty-artsy immersion in and around the Newport Jazz festival, including scenes of the host city Newport, the America’s Cup race, festival goers, kids in playgrounds, etc.

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Book Review: “Difficult Light” — Words Are Amazing Things

August 11, 2020
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A supple, evocative novel that meditates on family and loss and art.

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Film Review: Not Much of a Barfly — Drinking Red Wine with Writer Charles Bukowski

August 11, 2020
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“I don’t like writers. . . . Writers are very despicable people. Plumbers are better. Used car salesmen. They’re all more human than writers.”

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Film Review: Shudder’s “La Llorona” — A Supernatural Reckoning with Guatemalan Genocide

August 10, 2020
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La Llorona’s deepest horrors flow from real history, from the atrocities inflicted by powerful men and the institutions established to ensure they get away with it.

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Jazz Commentary: Russell’s “Hustle,” The Duke of Ellington, and Me

August 9, 2020
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What exactly did the Duke’s music symbolize to Russell’s shifty characters, two upwardly mobile lowlifes more anxious to fleece the world than fall in love?

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Jazz Album Review: What “Data Lords” Says About the Remarkable Career of Maria Schneider

August 9, 2020
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“The sun and everything in this world is there waiting for us—patiently and loyally. To feel its power, we just need to make the choice to get up, go out, look up and connect to its magnificence.” That is really, truly, there in the music.

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Music Album: Liv.e’s “Couldn’t Wait to Tell You …” — A Singular Meditative Headspace

August 9, 2020
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Couldn’t Wait to Tell You… is a well-paced, cohesive narrative, an exploration of the struggle for adulthood and independence. The title of Liv.e’s debut album is apt — it has exciting news to tell us.

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Jazz Appreciation: Rahsaan Roland Kirk — A Musical Force Field

August 8, 2020
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If there’s ever been a more distinctive jazz musician than Rahsaan Roland Kirk, you’ll have to prove it to me.

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Television Review: “Frayed” — Going Home, Yet Again

August 7, 2020
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Frayed is an Australian/British comedy, and its refreshing sense of gallows humor draws on the pessimism in both cultures.

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Jazz Album Review: Jimmy Heath’s Final “Love Letter”

August 7, 2020
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The disc mixes classics and originals in a set of tunes perfect for late-night reveries or for anytime sojourns to a place of unhurried passion.

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