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Jazz Album Review: Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon — “The Lost Album”

April 20, 2024
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The music works. The session is among old friends. The rhythm section cooks and every solo holds one’s attention.

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Jazz Album Review: “Chick Corea Akoustic Band Live” — A High-Spirited Reunion

September 15, 2021
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A judicious mix of jazz classics, standards, and Corea compositions, Live is a blast.

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Theatre Review: “An Iliad” — A Masterclass in Acting from MaConnia Chesser

June 22, 2022
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What elevates An Iliad beyond the routine is MaConnia Chesser’s dazzling performance as The Poet.

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Year-end CD Round-up, Part 1: Rosanne Philippens’ Prokofiev, Dover Quartet’s “Voices of Defiance,” Longleash’s “Passage,” Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, and Barbara Hannigan’s “Crazy Girl Crazy”

December 18, 2017
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Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.

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Music Interview: Singer Songwriter Robin Lane on a “Dirt Road to Heaven”

October 3, 2022
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Singer and songwriter Robin Lane talks about the genesis of her new album. She will be performing live around New England with a new ensemble.

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Television Review: Hulu’s “The Great” — Russian Tyranny for Laughs

May 20, 2020
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In The Great, Tony McNamara proves that period pieces that pit conniving yet sympathetic women against tyrannical men can make for a kind of refreshingly cathartic entertainment.

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Film Review: “My Best Friend’s Exorcism” — Wasted Bandwidth

September 30, 2022
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There’s no real engagement with the ’80s, so this attempt at horror/comedy is politically and emotionally inert, profoundly unfunny and pathetically un-scary.

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Fuse Album Review: Mark Dresser’s “Nourishments” — Music Tough and Pretty, Smart and Fun

August 6, 2013
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Nourishments is an emphatic musical statement from a seasoned bandleader, returning to the front of a traditional quintet.

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Pop Music Album Review: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s “Nandacollection” — Blissful Bubblegum

July 4, 2013
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Every moment of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s album “Nandacollection” exudes bliss and is a blast to listen to. It is bubblegum with more than a touch of brilliance.

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Film Review: “Azizler” (aka Stuck Apart) — Trapped Again

January 20, 2021
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Azizler is a slow burn; unfortunately, the payoff isn’t worth the wait.

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