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Jazz Remembrance: The Lasting, Complex Legacy of John Coltrane

Of all the musicians who were harbingers of change, none has had the long-term influence on young musicians that John Coltrane has had.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: John-Coltrane, Steve Provizer

Arts Commentary: Meditations on Separation

This is what I feel can add: the perspective of a native-born son of the Rochester metro; and a view from the bridge through jazz-colored glasses.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Alice Randall, Black Bottom Saints, Frederick Douglass, How to be an Antiracist, Steve Elman

Arts Remembrance: Soul Iconoclast Roy C

Roy C may not have lived to see the current regime toppled or his litigation over past royalties resolved to his satisfaction, but he died knowing that he was — without a doubt — a Black American original.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Noah Schaffer, Roy C, Roy Charles Hammond, Three Gems

Visual Arts Commentary: Digital Media — Public Art Is a Bridge to Our New Normal

In a time when everyday seems like Wednesday, creative use of new media is a visual and experiential bridge to our new and hopefully innovative normal.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Art on the Marquee, Boston Cyberarts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, digital art, Mark Favermann, public art

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.

By: Patrick Conway Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Fred “Toots” Hibbert, Patrick Conway, reggae, Toots and the Maytals

Police Violence Commentary: Another NYPD Murder — Two Decades Ago

To be killed — as in murdered — by police you don’t necessarily have to be a person of color.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Gary Busch, Hasidic, Jewish murder, NYPD killings, Rudy Guliani

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

Arts Commentary: Family-Friendly Pandemic Entertainment?

Will attendees of Jurassic Quest “have a dino-mite time!”? Who knows? But the event will look mighty attractive to parents who havee been stuck in the house with kids who are driving them to distraction.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: JURASSIC QUEST DRIVE-THRU EXPERIENCE, Steve Provizer

Book Feature: Children of the Revolution — An Interview with Lawrence Roberts about Mayday 1971

“One lesson is that when a country feels like it’s really gone off on the wrong track, a social movement that finds a way to express that dissent in the streets can really make a difference.”

By: David Stewart Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Lawrence Roberts, Mayday 1971, Richard Nixon

Theater Commentary: Notes Toward a Definition of Theater, Part One — “Be Bold and Wild”

As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: 6 Feet Apart All Together, All Together, Double Edge Theatre

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