Review
The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.
This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.
Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.
There’s something gleefully retro about his hour-plus-long jukebox.
“Data Mind” contains a spiritual blessing — it teaches us how to praise life in a universe that is so broken it is determined to erase our humanity.
Bottom line: “Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023” captures the manic, mercurial energy that transformed the man born James Osterberg into the legend that is Iggy Pop.
The keyboard wizard’s latest album both continues a trend of expansive projects that take the long view and celebrates the decade-plus the virtuoso has resided in the United States. It is a blast.
“PoemJazz” is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to.
More than the threat posed by the ghost, “Presence” is desperately terrified of ambiguity.

Recent Comments