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2022 Newport Folk Festival Review: An Occasion for Awe

July 27, 2022
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The Newport Folk Festival’s biggest secrets were cleanly hidden and tightly executed with the day-capping revelations of Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell.

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Jazz Concert Review: Two Trios Bring Compositional Acumen to Spontaneous Collective Improvisation

July 27, 2022
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Such a beautiful evening of music — two relatively concise sets, one an hour long, another a little less — adding up to an integral whole.

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Jazz Interview: A Conversation with Music Promoter Alex Lemski 

July 27, 2022
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“Music here is great, cutting edge. But to get an audience anywhere you need to get covered … Promoting is a struggle, dealing with the lack of media coverage.”

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Arts Appreciation: Long Overdue — Homage to Julius Eastman, Fierce Black Queen Iconoclast

July 26, 2022
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Scorned and consigned to oblivion in his day, Julius Eastman is finally being celebrated for his unabashed talent and the sheer audacity of his inimitable genius. Brava diva!

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Jazz Album Reviews: Two From Guitarist Albare — One Sedately Traditional, the Other More Satisfyingly Adventurous

July 26, 2022
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Albare Plays Jobim: A Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim is a traditional Brazilian offering, content to offer soothing Bossa Nova rhythms; Freedom is more unconventional, merging Brazilian beats with jazzier improvisations.

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Book Review: “Making Tracks: A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey”

July 26, 2022
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A music aficionado-turned-record producer shares his indelible memories of life on the road and in the studio, working with such artists Sleepy LaBeef, Irma Thomas, James Booker, Solomon Burke, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Ruth Brown.

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Film Review: “Medusa” — “She’s Beautiful and She’s Screaming”

July 25, 2022
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Brazilian director Anita Rocha Da Silveira’s latest film is a genre-spliced howl of feminine fury in the face of right-wing Christian conservatism.

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Classical Album Review: A Quietly Powerful Work for the Lorelei Ensemble Pays Homage to an Anti-Nazi Activist

July 25, 2022
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Thankfully, there is no melodramatic black-and-white in James Kallembach’s fascinating 36-minute work, first performed at Boston University by the Lorelei Ensemble in 2017.

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Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Three, “The Fall”

July 25, 2022
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“Episode III. The Fall” is the most thematically focused installment in the four-part I Am the Moon saga so far.

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Book Review: A Well-Written Biography of Stewart Brand — The Man Who Popularized Planetary Consciousness

July 25, 2022
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Stewart Brand’s greatest achievement, by far, was the simple act of putting the photograph of the earth as seen from space on the Whole Earth Catalog’s cover.

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