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Jon Garelick

Culture Commentary: World War II Was a Race War, and It Isn’t Over

It isn’t exactly news that the genocide of Native Americans was a model for Hitler, but it hit with fresh force in The U.S. and the Holocaust.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Television Tagged: antisemitism, Jon Garelick, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein, The U.S. and the Holocaust

Concert Review: The High Standards of Michael Formanek’s Elusion Quartet

To hear free music so beautifully contained and expressed in such inventive forms isn’t unheard of (Henry Threadgill? Vijay Iyer? Wadada Leo Smith?). But bassist Michael Formanek has his own way.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Ches Smith, Jon Garelick, Kris Davis, Michael Formanek, Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet, Tony Malaby, Virtuosity Musical Instruments

Jazz Concert Review: Two Trios Bring Compositional Acumen to Spontaneous Collective Improvisation

Such a beautiful evening of music — two relatively concise sets, one an hour long, another a little less — adding up to an integral whole.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Adumbrations, Growing Season, Jed Wilson, Jon Garelick, Josh Sinton, Tony Falco, Virtuosity Musical Instruments

Concert Review: The 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — The Blessed Return of Musical Serendipity

We’d returned to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. We’d ridden a paddle-wheeler on the Mississippi River. It was good to be back, and why we’ll go back every chance we get: to life.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Popular Music, Review, World Music Tagged: Alex McMurray, Aurora Nealand, Jon Garelick, Kevin Goodman and the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Quiana Parler, Ranky Tanky, The Daiquiri Queens

Album Roundup: Adventurous Solo Performances from Jazz Pianists

Solo performance is still a way ahead for jazz pianists, judging from four CDs released in 2021.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Craig Taborn, Dan DeChellis, Falkner Evans, Jon Garelick, Satoko Fujii

Jazz Appreciation: Remembering George Wein (1925-2021)

The sum total of George Wein’s career was a successful wedding of art and commerce.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: George Wein, Jon Garelick, Newport Jazz Festival

Jazz Commentary: Charlie Parker — The Eternal Radical at 100

I’m still not sure I heard what’s revolutionary about Charlie Parker’s recordings — they’re very old news by now. But I warm to the expressions of unique genius, a beauty that in itself is radical.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Charlie-Parker, Jon Garelick

Visual Arts Commentary: Museums are Getting Woke for Real

By digging deep into Thomas McKeller, the Gardner Museum has not only resurrected a lost figure (and lost music, and “lost” art) but revealed and contributed to an ongoing history.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: homas McKeller, John Singer Sargent, Jon Garelick

Music Review: The de-Stones’d New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 50th Anniversary

“Forgiveness is the key and love is the answer… Have a good Jazz Fest, but also have a good life.”

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Jazz, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock, World Music Tagged: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Tom McDermott

Concert Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

The show had an undercurrent that brought to the fore all the issues that have put Wynton Marsalis at the center of the culture wars.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis

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