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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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Music Preview: Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Fireside Live Tour Is on Its Way

July 9, 2021
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Regardless of what the future holds, Derek Trucks said that he and his bandmates are grateful for every opportunity to get back in front of live audiences.

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Jazz Concert Review: The Charles Lloyd New Quartet — Of Sound and Silence

March 22, 2013
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It turns out that it was more than just a rumor that saxophonist Charles Lloyd spent some of the ’70s playing with The Beach Boys.

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Book Review: Oscar Wilde Fights the Dying of the Light

October 9, 2017
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Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.

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Theater Review: Sutton Foster Shines Bright in Broadway Revival of “Once Upon a Mattress”

August 20, 2024
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This “Mattress” is all about Sutton Foster. And that’s a good thing.

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Gospel Album Review: Sister Rosetta Tharpe — A “Solid Sender”

April 26, 2024
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I admire Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s wit and daring, her singularly effective guitar playing, and the subtlety of her singing.

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Theater Review: “Cyrano” — A Classic, Well Refreshed

July 24, 2018
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With this fun and irreverent staging of Cyrano, GSC Artistic Director Robert Walsh has thrown audiences a delightful curve.

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Book Review: In Quest of the Elemental — André du Bouchet’s “Openwork”

October 13, 2014
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André du Bouchet writes the kind of poetry that other poets ponder, perhaps resist or even reject for a while, yet inevitably return to study even if (or because) their own poetics are starkly dissimilar to his.

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Music Review: “Solid Sound Festival 2019” — A Far-Reaching Family Affair

July 2, 2019
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Wilco went all-in this year for a personal bond, inviting internet-culled winners onstage for live-band karaoke with the group.

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Album Review/Concert Preview: Adam Sherman and Robin Lane — The Start of a Beautiful Friendship?

March 22, 2025
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Here’s hoping that Adam Sherman and Robin Lane remain a creative item and continue to write and record new material. Both are in late-career resurgences and have devoted fans that fill the smaller clubs they typically perform in to the brim.

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