Review
“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”
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One of the distinguishing characteristics of this set is the smart, energetic, and ever-changing, relationship between bass and drums.
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British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.
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Kamasi Washington’s music connected viscerally with a Royale audience that was packed with young people — or at least way younger than those normally seen at a jazz concert.
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Hype Man is a complex and challenging treatment of race relations in the U.S.– indispensable viewing in these days of Trump.
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In this album, saxophonist Ethan Helm has achieved a very personal balance between highly composed sections and solos rooted in harmony and free playing.
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The moral of Jen Silverman’s yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banality.
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Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
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Aside from his seemingly effortless technique, Roustem Saïtkoulov struck me as a poet of the piano. Music seems to be his first language.
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
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