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“Time Flies” offers approximately two hours of outstanding jazz, created by true masters with no other agenda than to play their asses off with the tape rolling.
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Riddles are abound when Les Claypool comes to town.
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WasFest is a very welcome addition to Boston’s arts landscape, invaluable because it invites artists to push themselves forward while they acknowledge their still powerful influences.
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Bass-wielding provocateur Les Claypool is an expert at warping the seemingly conventional into carnivalesque oddity.
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Both of these documentaries offer gratifying viewing for any curious roots music fan.
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“Everyone involved was committed to doing something different and eclectic,” WasFest curator Don Was said. “It’s a mixed bag, and that’s what we wanted.”
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Given the overwhelmingly loud and appreciative response from the sold-out crowd, which hung on every note of Leslie Odom, Jr.’s diverse and stirring set list, he’s unlikely to forget Groton anytime soon.
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At New Hampshire’s just-christened Nashua Center for the Arts, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Pat Metheny shared a wily sidelong glance at his own broad compositional and improvisational history.
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So why am I going to write about the Nuggets concert for a New England outlet? Because, totally surprising to me, there was a lot of Boston in the show.
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Arts Commentary: “Fast Car” — Mainstream Country’s Detour from Diversity
Black and openly queer women are not allowed in the Nashville club. Secretly gay white men are not doing too badly, though.
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