Review
The playing on this 1979 album, which would generally be considered as flawed, is part of the singular (mature) Chet Baker gestalt.
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A more accurate title for Ibram X Kendi’s engaging and compelling book might be:” How I learned to think like an antiracist and how you can too.”
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Dave Pietro is a fine, distinctive composer, an agile, precise saxophonist, and a band leader to be trusted.
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‘BCN left behind some big shoes, but they can be filled. And there are inspiring signs that the kids, not the grizzled veterans of last century, will do the filling.
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Family Romance, LLC is a wrong-headed, inferior Herzog movie. Wake up, Werner! Oh, for a jolt of Klaus Kinski.
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The Truth is simply a delightful film all around.
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Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.
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No matter his musical surroundings, there is never any doubt that it is Joe Lovano you are hearing.
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It’s Beethoven’s 250th birthday year: reviews of four sets of the complete piano concertos from, respectively, Paul Lewis, Stewart Goodyear, Inon Barnatan, and Stephen Hough.
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Arts Commentary: “Hamilton” — Streaming on Disney Plus, Feeling Like You’re in the Room Where it Happened.
The opportunity to see the culture-changing Broadway phenomenon Hamilton on Disney Plus, sucked up all the arts oxygen over the Fourth of July weekend.
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