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Jazz

Music Review: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2018

Mostly the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ends up being about the multiplicity and infinite variety of cultures and traditions, including generic funk.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Bobby Rush, David Byrne, Irma Thomas, Jazz, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Samantha Fish, Tuba Skinny

Jazz Interview: Composer/Pianist Anthony Coleman — On Being “Avant-Garde”

As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, NEC commissioned Anthony Coleman to compose a large-scale work he has named Streams.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Anthony Coleman, big band, Cecil Taylor, Jazz, NEC, Steve Provizer, Streams

Jazz Commentary: Survival of a Scene in Boston

Local music venues — especially those with “off” music like jazz — are caught in a vice, with real estate escalation on one side and corporate-dominated digital technology on the other.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Boston Jazz, Jazz, Jazz Boston, Ryles, Steve Provizer

Book Review: “This is Hip” — The Trials and Tribulations of Jazz Singer Mark Murphy

Jazz singer Mark Murphy was just too much for most audiences during that period; too intense, too varied, too unpredictable.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Equinox, Jazz, Mark Murphy, This is Hip, vocalist

Music Interview: Stanley Sagov — Doctor Jazz

Stanley Sagov never wants to play a piece the same way twice. He’s always engaged in a “search for freshness.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: Jazz, Ken Bader, Remembering the Future Jazz Band, Stanley Sagov

Film Review: “Chasing Trane” — Telling the Story of a Jazz Legend

This documentary about John Coltrane serves up skillful, sensitive storytelling and an appropriate sense of reverence.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Chasing Trane, documentary, Jazz, John Scheinfeld, Matt Hanson, Netflix

Film Review: “I Called Him Morgan” — A Superb Jazz Documentary

I Called Him Morgan has been lauded as one of the best films of the year, and rightfully so.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Blue-Note, documentary, I Call Him Morgan, Jazz, Kasper Collin, Lee Morgan, Matt Hanson, trumpeter

Jazz CD Review: Dominique Eade and Ran Blake’s Personal Vision of Americana on “Town and Country”

The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Dominique Eade, Folk, Jazz, Ran Blake, Town and Country

Fuse Remembrance: Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson — Making the Imagination Run

“When you think about music it’s got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.”

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Bobby Hutcherson, Jazz, vibraphone

Book Review and Commentary: Testaments to the Wonderful Ears of Ralph J. Gleason

A writer has to write for the now or to write for the ages. Gleason almost always chose the now, but his best moments go deeper.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews, Jazz, Music Criticism, Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, Ralph J. Gleason, Toby Gleason, Yale-University-Press

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