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Music Review: “Someone​/​Anyone? A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Todd Rundgren’s Something/​Anything?”

February 3, 2022
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Someone/Anyone? is packed with lots of great music and makes a strong complement to the album it compliments, Something/Anything?

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The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: The Shape of Jazz That Keeps Us Going

January 10, 2025
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The creative force behind jazz is so strong and so universal that the music will continue to sustain us through whatever perils and calamities the upper echelons of business and politics land us in.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: May 1 through 10 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 1, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Opera Album Review: A Short but Virtuosic Opera from 1786 Receives Its First Recording

February 17, 2024
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Even without international-caliber singers and players, Giovanni Piaisello’s “Amor vendicato” works much magic.

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Jazz Survey: Chordless Drills – A Listener’s Guide to the Saxophone Trio

November 3, 2020
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Here is a personal selection of recordings in the saxophone trio format. These linear collaborations have been part of the jazz scene for at least seventy years now. The results are almost always illuminating and exhilarating, and a review of them offers a miniature history of saxophone styles.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: April 17 through 26— What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 17, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Sun Ra and Bill Evans — Two Superb Sets of Previously Unavailable Live Music

December 6, 2024
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As usual, Elemental’s pressings are pristine and the packaging is artful and informative, with new photos.

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Theater Interview: Bob Scanlan on Directing “The Arsonists”

August 27, 2024
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“It’s not just some generic ‘evil’ “The Arsonists” protests, it is willful blindness to fascist and authoritarian agendas. Denial and hiding behind “bourgeois” comfort is the theme.”

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Film Review: Two Music Docs That Go Deep — “City of a Million Dreams” and “Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille”

June 18, 2023
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Both of these documentaries offer gratifying viewing for any curious roots music fan.

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Book Review: “Through a Screen Darkly” — Psychological Strategies for Moving Beyond the Pandemic

January 17, 2022
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I found Through a Screen Darkly to be as enlightening as it is useful: we don’t just read about and invest our emotions in other lives; we learn what to do about our own.

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