Jazz

Music Feature: Best Jazz of the Year 2014

December 13, 2014
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Be prepared for some challenging, off-the-beaten path choices, including a new tradition.

Fuse Concert Review: Violinist Regina Carter’s Ancestral Magic

October 19, 2014
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Violinist Regina Carter and her band drew the audience in with a sustained mood of intimacy, warmth, and unfailingly beautiful playing.

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 4, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 28, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, visual arts, and dance that’s coming up this week.

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 21, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

September 19, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

Fuse News: Grace Notes for Pianist Cedar Walton

August 21, 2013
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The late Cedar Walton was part of some of the most potent bands in the history of jazz, most famously Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

Jazz CD Review: A Song Cycle “For Langston”

February 1, 2013
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For Langston fails on its own terms, which is to produce a moving, insightful, and in some sense accurate interpretation of the poetry of Langston Hughes.

Fuse Theater Review: “Satchmo at the Waldorf” — An Off-Key Portrait of a Jazz Giant

August 26, 2012
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As Louis Armstrong, the gifted actor John Douglas Thompson is working with a script whose lines and contours are as woefully predictable as a profile in the old Life Magazine.

Fuse Commentary: WGBH’s Radio Theater of the Absurd

June 22, 2012
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WGBH is exploring an interesting question — how little can you invest in arts coverage and still have the chutzpah to ask for money from supporters who mistake crumbs for a loaf?

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