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Allen Lowe is a saxophonist, composer, and historian of early jazz and roots music who doesn’t think he’s getting a fair shake from jazz’s gatekeepers.
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As always, the festival supplied some revelations, plus films from countries now prominent in the news.
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The whole band demonstrated an expressive variety of mark-making, as visual artists like to say: lines and squiggles and blotches, graceful or rude.
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Pianist Stewart Goodyear livens up a tried-and-true program with works new and unfamiliar; the husband-and-wife team of Lukas Geniušas and Anna Geniushene survey piano music written on these shores, starting in 1932.
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The skillful Mark Elder leads a fine cast, including the superb Peruvian tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas.
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Films about relationships are often the best offerings in the Provincetown Film Festival, and several of the narrative films at this year’s go-around were about seeking connection.
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Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.
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This year’s Chicago Blues Festival provided plenty of hope for the blues.
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Film Commentary: Zombie Apocalypse, Re-Imagined — The Legacy of “28 Days Later”
Where is the grandiose zombie apocalypse that illuminates the grotesque reality of the death-denying yet death-obsessed beings we’ve become? Ralph Fiennes knows.
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