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Best Jazz Recordings (and Live Concerts), 2019

December 12, 2019
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Pianist Kris Davis’s Diatom Ribbons and the multi-disc set Nat King Cole’s Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-43) are among the albums that made more than one list.

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Film Commentary: October — A Month of Horror, Multiplying

October 16, 2017
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I love subtlety, and beauty, and trash, and terror, in equal measure.

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Album Reviews: Echoes of Prog — Brad Mehldau and Circe Link & Christian Nesmith

April 14, 2022
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Recently, some artists have come out of the closet and put their prog hearts on their sleeves with new recordings that celebrate the heyday of progressive rock.

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Book Review: Robert Glick’s “Two Californias” — An Affinity for Fragmentation

July 15, 2020
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Two Californias is full of humor, good writing, and thoughtful angles on human existence—with zombies thrown in for good measure.

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Book Review: “The Menorah” and “The Book of Aron”

December 22, 2016
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Two books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.

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Book Review: “Film After Film” — The Shadow History of Our Times as Seen on the Big Screen

June 4, 2013
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It may be only a movie, but in his book “Film after Film,” former Village Voice writer J. Hoberman proves he isn’t just a movie critic.

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Music Review/Commentary: The Fringe in Context — Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival II

December 4, 2011
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Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the second, which focuses on The Fringe and some of the qualities that make the trio special in the world of jazz.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — July 2

July 2, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”

January 8, 2016
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And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.

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July Short Fuses — Materia Critica

July 1, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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