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Con Chapman

Opera Review: “Champion: An Opera in Jazz” — Fought to a Draw

The cast for this Boston Lyric Opera production was first-rate, and composer Terence Blanchard has worked in a wide variety of jazz styles and shifts gears to keep the score swinging throughout.

By: Con Chapman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Champion: An Opera in Jazz, Con Chapman, Emile Griffith, Michael Cristofer, Terence Blanchard

Books Commentary: Chronicler of Boston Crime — The Case for George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins created a style that was at first revelatory, then degenerated into a tic at the end of his career.

By: Con Chapman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Con Chapman, George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Book Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — The Most Un-Hip Woman Imaginable, and Proud of It.

If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”

By: Con Chapman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Con Chapman, Flannery O'Connor, Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends

Arts Remembrance: Emily Remler — The Short Life and Sad Death of a Jazz Guitarist

Emily Remler took a particularly clear-eyed view of her work. She didn’t want to be judged by a lesser standard because she was a woman in the overwhelmingly male world of jazz.

By: Con Chapman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Con Chapman, Emily Remler

Book Review: “Rabbit’s Blues” — The Reserved Tenderness of Johnny Hodges

Johnny Hodges was originally a Cambridge/Boston guy, and one of the most interesting sections of Con Chapman biography is his knowledgeable description of the local jazz scene in the 1910’s and ’20s.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Con Chapman, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges, Steve Provizer

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