Commentary
It’s good to discover that George Scialabba is as lively as ever and that “Only a Voice” is filled with provocative arguments that make the reader want to argue right back.
The journalistic value of blathering out weekend tips to the ears of the comfortable in a social media world awash with likes is dubious.
Carla Bley was an original. We will never see her like again. It is a great blessing that she left so much music.
Dan Canon provides not only the statistics but powerful stories to demonstrate the extent to which plea bargaining has bankrupted the justice system
These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.
Four recent releases illustrate what can happen when the only limits are the imagination of the composer and the passion of the performers.
“American Purgatory” is the sort of book reactionary politicians and organizations are trying to ban. It’s full of evidence that many of the attitudes and conditions prevalent in this country from its founding were racist, bigoted, even genocidal.
“The book in many ways is a defense of liberalism. It’s a defense of the idea that that’s really what the government should do in a democracy. The liberal consensus is what happens when you actually let people vote.”
Two Chilean artists look at the death of democracy and the aftermath of the 1973 coup.
Music Commentary: “Now and Then” — Nostalgia By and For the Beatles
In many ways, “Now and Then” is the fitting gift — a single closing bookend, which Paul McCartney has called the Beatles’ last record.
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