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Jazz Album Review/Commentary: “Don Quixote’s Adventures in the World of Jazz” — Is Jazz intrinsically Quixotic?

It’s hard to think of music that is more foolishly impractical than jazz, even with its pursuit of lofty ideals.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Cervantes, Dianne Reeves, Don Quixote, Hans Christian Hagedorn, Olympians, Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orkest

Book Review: Jess Walter — The Best Short Story Writer in 21st Century America?

Jess Walter is a writer capable of inspecting humanity’s foolishness and foul play, but he is rarely unkind to his dimmest characters. Even sociopaths get to explain what is going on in their minds.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: american short stories, Jess Walter, The Angel of Rome, The Cold Millions, We Live in Water

Book Review: Writer Thomas Mann — Still August After All These Years?

How does Thomas Mann’s grandiosity hold up today? A new selection of his short stories, freshly translated by veteran translator and fiction writer Damion Searls suggests an answer, though only partially.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Damion Searls, Matt Hanson, Thomas Mann

Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Climate Crisis, Debra Wise, The Underground Railway Theater

Book Review: One More Round with Norman Mailer

In his centennial year, it’s difficult not to see that Norman Mailer’s literary standing is at an inflection point.

By: David Daniel Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Norman-Mailer, Richard Bradford, Tough Guy

Film Commentary: The Books That Shaped My Film Aesthetic

Here’s a personal list of the 25 most important, influential books about American cinema. Only one book per author.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Carlos Clarens, Carol J. Clover, Charles Flynn, Danny Peary, David Bordwell, David Thomson, Donald Bogle, Dwight Macdonald, James Agee, Jim Kitses, Jonas Mekas, Joseph McBride, Kevin Brownlow, Kristin Thompson, Leonard Maltin, Lillian Ross, Molly Haskell, Pauline-Kael, Peter Wollen, Ray Carney, Richard Corliss, Robin Wood, Todd McCarthy, Vito Russo

Rock Remembrance: David Lindley, A Splendidly Cavalier Spirit

Electric guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, saz, oud, Hawaiian guitar, lap steel, fiddle, cittern; if it could be plucked, strummed or bowed, odds are Mr. Dave played it and played it well.

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music, Rock

Jazz Remembrance: Tribute to Wayne Shorter

One of the true masters of jazz, Wayne Shorter, passed away during the early hours of March 2. Our writers quickly gathered to express their appreciations of Shorter’s innovations and his long life of constant creativity.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Wayne Shorter

Book Review: “What’s Prison For?” — A Case for Building Trust and Mutual Respect

In this valuable and necessary book Bill Keller argues that American prisons need to accept that men and women don’t stop being human beings because they’re in the custody of the state.

By: Bill Littlefield Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: American Prisons, Bill Keller, Bill Littlefield, Columbia University Press, Prison reform, What’s Prison For?

Music Interview: YouTube Algorithm Causes Major Disruption to Jazz Video Guy, Bret Primack

Bret Primack explains how YouTube has basically nuked the Jazz Video Guy channel. And the same thing is happening to other content creators.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Jazz, Music Tagged: Bret Primack, Jazz Video Guy, Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack, Steve Provizer

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