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Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s Gunther Schuller Memorial

November 25, 2015
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As a composer, Gunther Schuller’s legacy is complex and has yet to be settled. Sorting through it all will constitute a great, welcome adventure.

Concert Review: Pianist Fred Hersch—A Wonder of a Soloist

October 31, 2015
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As a soloist, Fred Hersch is a wonder: he plays with an active, to the point of restless, two-handed style that sweeps a listener along with its lyrical fervor.

Jazz Review: The Bad Plus Joshua Redman—Making Beauty Easily

October 28, 2015
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With the galvanic addition of Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus is now made up of four intense virtuosos.

Jazz Concert Review: Mark Harvey and The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra—Boston Giants

October 12, 2015
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trumpeter–composer Mark Harvey’s imaginative conducting made the pieces work together in fascinating ways.

Fuse Preview: The 2015 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

September 24, 2015
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From noon to six on Saturday, September 26, Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fifteenth year.

Jazz CD Review: Miles Davis at Newport — Indispensable

August 19, 2015
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Miles Davis at Newport, 1955-1975 has its drawbacks, but I wouldn’t want to be without this four-disc collection

Concert Review: Wunderkind Joey Alexander at the Shalin Liu Performance Center

August 18, 2015
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Joey Alexander is more than a mere prodigy; he is closer to a freak of nature, a fully formed jazz virtuoso.

Jazz Interview: Scott Robinson’s Out-of-This-World Sound Comes to the Newport Jazz Festival

July 28, 2015
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Scott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.

Arts Remembrance: Guitarist Garrison Fewell — The Master of Searching for Something More

July 5, 2015
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An inspiring man as well as a brilliant musician, Garrison Fewell had the courage to turn away from the darkness and to embrace the light.

Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty

July 3, 2015
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So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”

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