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Book Review: “Love in the New Millennium” — Inscrutable Passion

November 25, 2018
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This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.

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Jazz Preview: Pianist Joey Alexander — A Wizened Vet at the Age of 15

November 4, 2018
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“The pressure, I believe, is the responsibility to work on your gift. It’s God’s gift, a calling for me to share.”

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Book Review: “We Are All Good People Here” — From All Sides

August 3, 2019
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We Are All Good People Here is an enormously insightful examination of how dangerous suggestible people can be, to those around them and to themselves.

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Theater Review: “Orlando” — Asking What Gender Really Means

March 13, 2018
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There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.

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Jazz CD Review: “MONKestra, Volume Two” — Reinventing Monk

August 15, 2017
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John Beasley and his big band doesn’t tame Monk or make him uncharacteristically pretty.

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Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music

February 16, 2016
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Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.

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Jazz Album Review: Kenny Dorham’s Distinctive “Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco”

April 18, 2025
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“Blue Bossa in the Bronx” brings us into a jazz club on a good night. It’s unlike any other Kenny Dorham session, which makes it valuable indeed.

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Jazz Album Review: Two Trios — Featuring Harold Mabern and Yoko Miwa

February 21, 2021
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One disc pays expert homage to the late pianist Harold Mabern; pianist Yoko Miwa’s latest album supplies much appreciated exuberance.

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Jazz Album Review: “Mingus at Carnegie Hall” — A Deluxe Edition of a Wondrous Evening

July 25, 2021
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This re-release features 72 minutes of unreleased music. Nearly every track on the two-hour set pushes the 20-minute range, with results more exhilarating than exhausting.

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Television Review: “A League of Their Own” — A Welcome Reboot

August 16, 2022
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For the most part, co-creators Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson have easily justified the need for a reboot of the admired 1992 sports film.

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