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Allen Michie

Book Review: Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” — More like a Quarrel

Anahid Nersessian claims that her book is a kind of love story between her and Keats’ odes. But it turns out we have to take her word for that. Too often this study comes off like an acrimonious couple’s counseling session.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Anahid Nersessian, John Keats, Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse, Poetry

Arts Feature: Significant Jazz Experiences, 2020

The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorites — performances, recordings, and books.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Allen Michie, Michael Ullman, Steve Elman, Steve Feeney

Jazz Album Review: The Yellowjackets Celebrate Turning 40 — With a Big Band

Now that ¾ of the Yellowjackets are eligible for Social Security, the emphasis is more on confirming a legacy of creative compositions and expanding their art of arranging with a broader range of colors.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Jackets XL, Yellowjackets

World Music CD Reviews: Percussionist Julian Gerstin and Guitarist Todd Mosby Go Their Own Way

These superb CDs, from musicians who are doing it their own way, on their own labels, celebrate the realms below and above us: the sea and the sky.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aerial Views, Allen Michie, Julian Gerstin, Littoral Zone, Todd Mosby

Book Review: “Death in Her Hands” — There’s No Mystery to This Mystery

It’s as if Moshfegh is testing the furthest limits of a “red herring”: what if everything is red and everything is herring?

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Death in Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh

Poetry Remembrance: John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” — Forever Young at 200

Keats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Allen Michie, John Keats, Poetry, The Eve of St. Agnes

Film Review: “Vinyl Nation” — A Visit to Vinyl Heaven

“Every record can have its own unique sound, depending on who has owned it, who’s touched it, where it’s been. That’s really important to me.” This movie makes you realize that these things should be important to you, too.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Amoeba Music, Chulita Vinyl Club, documentary, Vinyl Nation, Vinyl Records

Jazz Album Review: Madre Vaca’s “Winterreise”— Varied Jazz Arrangements Bring Schubert in from the Cold

A Mother Cow of jazz iconoclasts takes on German lieder, because why not?

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Madre Vaca, Madre Vaca Records, Winterreise

Jazz Album Review: What “Data Lords” Says About the Remarkable Career of Maria Schneider

“The sun and everything in this world is there waiting for us—patiently and loyally. To feel its power, we just need to make the choice to get up, go out, look up and connect to its magnificence.” That is really, truly, there in the music.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, ArtistShare l, Data Lords, Donny McCaslin, Frank Kimbrough, Gary Versace, George Flynn, Maria Schneider

Arts Reconsideration: “Pinocchio” at 80

Now that the real live boy is an old man, how’s he holding up in 2020?

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Allen Michie, Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio, Walt-Disney

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