Review
Taking both of these new releases together should satisfy the ‘bones jones of just about any jazz fan.
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This shaggy dog story, set in the bowels of Manhattan, in the yet to be gentrified bohemian enclave of SoHo, presented an opportunity for Martin Scorsese to return to bare-bones filmmaking.
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Despite the lack of background or explanation for the occult item at the center of “Talk to Me,” I found it relatively easy to suspend my disbelief and become caught up in the story’s momentum.
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Move over, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók: the pantheon of great Third Piano Concertos is growing.
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This uncomplicated version of Shakespeare’s tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth’s “black and deep desires.”
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This new recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s”Requiem” by Martyn Brabbins, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and the University of Birmingham Voices, is beautiful and often memorable.
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Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.
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An album that does admirable justice to one of the most prolific, significant, and increasingly long-lived composers of a remarkable generation.
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The guitarist led his razor-sharp band through two sets steeped in bluegrass that, at any given moment, could erupt into psychedelic jams, old-school country, metallic thrashing, or jazzy forays.
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Book Review: “Free Them All” — The Case for Abolishing Prisons
“Free Them All”‘s analysis of the broken prison system and the obstacles facing those determined to find solutions combines scholarly discipline with a powerful, emotional appeal for justice.
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