Review
This three-disc set provides a fascinating look behind the curtain at one of the great bandleaders in jazz history putting together his groups, seeing what they can do from multiple angles, and building a new musical concept from scratch.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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As its plot unfolds, Amsterdam treats us to a strangely magical form of visual and verbal storytelling, both humorous and hard-edged, by turns sweet and shocking, with richly curated frames and bright spirited dialogue.
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Bros jokes about the hypocrisies of corporate diversity — often accurately, and with a cutting edge — while embodying some of the same problems.
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This recording presents one of the most lucid and well-programmed portraits of John Adams to emerge, well, in a long while.
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As far as tour openers go, the concert on Friday presented no signs of a band holding back or slow to gain speed.
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The action, as it were, is mostly the exhaustively filmed grappling of two beautiful people in no-star motels.
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Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, at his best, was compelling. Granted, he wasn’t working at this level in every piece. But most of his bigger works are better than not.
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Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.
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You don’t have to be a math wiz to enjoy Lauren Gunderson’s engaging historical drama, which has been effectively staged by director Debra Wise.
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