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This may be the year’s best ensemble cast, and that goes a long way towards making this multi-layered melodrama accessible and compelling.
“You’re always gonna be yourself, your unique self, so it’s important to incorporate the things that you really love.”
There’s a larger story to tell about black composers and musicians breaking into the film and TV business, but its only lightly touched on here.
A pair of recent books help keep the glorious spirit of Carnival alive.
A pair of beauties: an Eric Revis quintet album and a solo excursion from Chick Corea.
What comes through most resonantly in Apples is its envisioning of a society starting over, and its suggestion that a clean slate, accepted honestly, might not be the worst thing.
To be killed — as in murdered — by police you don’t necessarily have to be a person of color.
Antônio Carlos Gomes’s Lo Schiavo (The Slave) receives its first major recording — and stakes its claim in the repertory.
“We will step to the edge of our humanity, expressing the commonalities that we all share, the threads that bind and connect us all.”
Arts Remembrance: Fred “Toots” Hibbert — Resiliency in the Face of Struggle
As anyone who is familiar with “Toots” Hibbert’s near sixty-year career could testify, he was an artist who wrote songs that were guaranteed to transcend the contexts of their particular place and moment.
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