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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.
As always, the festival supplied some revelations, plus films from countries now prominent in the news.
The whole band demonstrated an expressive variety of mark-making, as visual artists like to say: lines and squiggles and blotches, graceful or rude.
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.
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.
Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.
This year’s Chicago Blues Festival provided plenty of hope for the blues.
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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