World Music
Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.
Read MoreYes, Gary Numan’s jumped a bandwagon, but the former new-wave hitmaker has done it with style.
Read More“Music just comes, you know? You’re harvesting potatoes, and something happens and you have to put it immediately on paper.”
Read MoreFuse Music Critic Noah Schaffer’s favorite live music moments from the past year.
Read More“He’s someone who appears only once in a hundred years.”—Hermeto Pascoal
Read More“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience of jazz. Even if I’m singing Brazilian music.”
Read MoreIf the music that can touch you so deeply with so few notes weren’t so magical, there’s also Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebru’s fascinating back-story.
Read MoreThere’s a festival just about every weekend, it seems. The newest is The Nines Festival.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.
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Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.
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