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A taboo interracial romance may not be groundbreaking material for fiction, but Robinson’s spare conflicts are only the means to generate intimations of the profound in the everyday.
Bravo to the Bru Zane folks for this latest triumph! I encourage opera lovers to get to know this treasurable Spanish (or faux-Spanish) work by the pioneering master of nineteenth-century operetta.
He may be extreme as a polemicist, but Ricky Riccardi shines when he sticks to jazz’s history.
For fans of novellas, Filthy Rich will be a trashy guilty pleasure.
Charles Lloyd and Julian Lage and Zakir Hussain served a loose, flowing 65-minute set with complementary facility that belied the novel circumstances.
I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”
No matter where our lives were at just nine months ago, most of us are now longing for those pre-pandemic days. Jump into this week’s jukebox of an episode for a trip back in time.
Keats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.
When Willie dove into “On the Road Again” to close the set, singing of “making music with my friends,” one could envision the same hopes for Farm Aid to resume its annual trek to an amphitheater somewhere in America and stoke the communal cause.
Jazz Commentary: Louis Armstrong as Negotiator
Throughout much of his career, Louis Armstrong negotiated a balance between being a “popular” artist and a jazz artist.
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