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Jazz Album Review: Miguel Zenón’s Law Years Band & Christian McBride’s New Jawn Band

Two pianoless quartets + two restless leaders = some of the best music of the last few years.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Christian McBride, Law Years, Miguel Zenón, Ornette Coleman, Stave Sessions

Classical CD Review: György Ligeti’s “Études” — Well Played and Clearly Lived In

Throughout these Études, Driver’s playing marries tonal warmth with textural precision.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Danny Driver, Etudes, György Ligeti, Hyperion

April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Bill-Marx, Chick Corea, Gerald Peary, Harvey Blume, I Care A Lot, Plays, Proud Songsters, Susan Miron, Tim Barry, Two Legends

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (April Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the list includes Marvin Gaye, Link Wray, David Bowie, Jean Knight, and The Rolling Stones.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: "Mr Big Stuff", "What’s Going On", Allen Michie, Daniel Gewertz, David Bowie, David Daniel, Hunky Dory, Jean Knight, Jeremy Ray Jewell, Link Wray, Marvin Gaye, Matt Hanson, Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones

Book Review: “The Search for John Lennon” — Going Down the Wrong Road

In her search for John Lennon, the author follows her fancy and picks and chooses which rocks she wants to look under, all the while giving herself the space to wax poetic on whatever theme moves her. It’s an appealing approach. Too bad then that the book is a let down.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: John Lennon, Lesley-Ann Jones, Pegasus Books

Book Review: “Last Chance Texaco” — Rickie Lee Jones Remembers

Of all the biographies of female musicians I’ve read in the past year, Last Chance Texaco is the most transparent about the vagaries of fame.

By: Chelsea Spear Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Rock Tagged: Last Chance Texaco, Rickie Lee Jones, Tom Waits

Opera CD Review: Two Splendid World-Premiere Recordings Rediscover an Exotic Master of Song — Reynaldo Hahn

Attention is being paid today to talented composers who have been sidelined or disdained because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Reynaldo Hahn qualifies on several counts.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bru Zane, L’Île du rêve, Ô mon bel inconnu, Ralph P. Locke, Reynaldo Hahn

Author Interview: Talking to Miss Pat about her “Reggae Music Journey”

Miss Pat, reggae’s Chinese-Jamaican matriarch, reflects on a life in riddim.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Miss Pat, My Reggae Music Journey, Noah Schaffer, Patricia Chin

Classical CD Review: Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien, and Matthias Goerne play/sing Brahms

One might risk hyperbole by saying so, but in this instance such recklessness is worth it: this album sounds like Brahms as he ought to be played and sung.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien, Harmonia Mundi, Matthias Goern

Book Review: Alex Ross’s Dizzying, Engrossing, and Sometimes Overwhelming Exploration of Wagnerism

For Alex Ross, Wagnerism is as profound and far-reaching an aesthetic ideology – for good, ill, and all degrees in between – as any.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Alex-Ross, Richard Wagner, Wagnerism

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