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Chance’s The Big Day beautifully blends authentic passion with superior talent and special guests with star power.
This Nashvillian has a simple message for America: “You best pull yourself together, or you might never be the same.”
This album lacks the desperation, the immediacy, the sheer power that made Sleater-Kinney essential in its original decade.
In this extraordinary recording, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani is given a chance to perfectly convey the power of his emotions.
I left thinking that holding a blues (or a jazz) festival in every city and town would not be a bad idea. It’s a better way for municipalities to spend their money — with a surer payoff — than tax abatements for Amazon.
“There’s a giant chip on the shoulder of those who love musics of the world when it comes to klezmer.”
Now more than ever, “the people,” of all ages, want Queen. How lucky we are that Lambert, May, and Taylor are willing and able to deliver.
“It’s not something to be tolerated,” saxophonist Kamasi Washington said. “It’s something to be celebrated.”
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