Updated. Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that’s coming up this week.
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music, and theater that’s coming up this week.
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music and theater that’s coming up this week.
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.
Either/Orchestra: The 25th Anniversary Concert
UPDATE: Either/Orchestra’s 25th anniversary concert comes to New York—an unforgettable confluence of talent revisiting more than two decades of memorable compositions and arrangements.
Coming Attractions in Jazz: October 2009
For a genre that supposedly expired in the 1950’s, the big band’s vital signs seem remarkably robust here in Boston. By J. R. Carroll A welcome recent addition has been the compositions and arrangements of tenor saxophonist Florencia Gonzalez, which layer vivid sonorities and intricate counterpoint atop Afro-Uruguayan candombe and Argentinian tango. She brings her […]
Music Review: Becoming Coltrane: Part One
By J. R. Carroll This review/commentary will focus on Coltrane’s recordings with the Miles Davis Quintet for Columbia (in October 1955 and June and September 1956) and Prestige (in November 1955 and May and October 1956), as well as a variety of sideman dates and nominally leaderless sessions, many of which have recently been reissued […]
Book Review: Trane’s Long Shadow
Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Reviewed by J. R. Carroll During an interview in Japan in 1966, John Coltrane was asked what he would like to be in ten years. Coltrane replied, “I would like to be a saint.” Lewis Porter, author of the definitive study John Coltrane: […]