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Jazz groups of eight to eleven often make fascinating and unusual music, but they rarely survive.
But dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.
While Freda Payne still sings “Band of Gold” on soul package revues, she has recently rekindled the jazz side of her career.
Reality is the driving force behind the suspense in this film’s look at the lurid underbelly of post-war Germany.
Even the hippest of us can succumb to a deep longing for harmony, lush orchestration, and magic.
A vital part of Susan Graham’s appeal is her winning personality; she makes a recital hall audience happy to be here before she sings a note.
This is Boston, not Austin.
Murray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Literary Appreciation: “The Passion for the Thing” — An Argument for Writer Harry Crews
The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.
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