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Book Review: “Every Good Boy Does Fine” — A Career in Music, Elucidated With Brilliance

Pianist Jeremy Denk is a sensitive and articulate polymath who can elucidate his ideas about music with wit, humor, and style.

By: Stephen Provizer Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Every Good Boy Does Fine, Jeremy Denk, Stephen Provizer, Steve Provizer

Rock Album Review: The Gravel Project — An Impressive Musical Reach

The Gravel Project respects its roots, but its new album demonstrates how a band can honor its influences without being smothered by them.

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Andrew Gravel, Jordaan Gravel, Many Miles Ahead, Scott McLennan, The Gravel Project

Jazz Album Review: Ornette Coleman — Very Much the “Genesis of Genius”

Ornette Coleman turned to me and said, “You know, you can never really be out of tune. You are always in tune with something.”

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Craft Recordings, Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums, Michael Ullman, Ornette Coleman, Something Else!

Album Review: “Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s” — A Rich Centennial Treat

The centenary of bassist/composer Charles Mingus’ birthday is days away and I am listening to the beautifully packaged and processed and richly annotated 3 lps of Mingus’s Lost Album, recorded live at Ronnie Scott’s London club in 1972.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Charles McPherson, Charles Mingus, Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s, Resonance Records, Ronnie Scott's

Music Commentary: Jazz, Ed Sullivan, and Television

These performances on The Ed Sullivan Show occurred almost exclusively between 1957 and 1964 and that’s not happenstance. They coincide with the only slice of time when different styles of jazz ever got a significant airing on television.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Ed Sullivan, Steve Provizer

Opera Album Review: The Boston Early Music Festival — One of the Best Recordings Ever of a Baroque Opera

The Boston Early Music Festival returns in person — and in a world-premiere recording of a German Baroque opera.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Antiochus and Stratonica, Christoph Graupner, Paul O'Dette, Ralph Locke, Stephen Stubbs, The Boston Early Music Festival

Concert Review: Big Thief at Roadrunner

Big Thief is a largely somber folk-rock outfit fronted by introspective singer/songwriter Adrianne Lenker that doesn’t care much about showmanship.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Review, Rock, Uncategorized Tagged: Adrianne Lenker, Big Thief, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia, Max Oleartchik, Paul Robicheau

Book Review: “Hard Rain” — For Dylan Completists Only

It’s a work that shifts gears often, which is not in itself a bad idea for a book about a famed shape-shifter.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Folk, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Alessandro Portelli, Bob-Dylan, Hard Rain

Pop Album Review: Charli XCX’s “Crash” — Loud, Reckless, and Messy

Charli packages existential angst and heartache in sly, self aware pop performances that manage to deftly fuse self-conscious artificiality with earnest passion.

By: Alexander Szeptycki Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Alexander Szeptycki, Charli XCX, Crash

Album Reviews: Echoes of Prog — Brad Mehldau and Circe Link & Christian Nesmith

Recently, some artists have come out of the closet and put their prog hearts on their sleeves with new recordings that celebrate the heyday of progressive rock.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Brad Mehldau, Christian Nesmith, Circe Link, Cosmologica, Jacob’s Ladder, Jason M. Rubin

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