Milo Miles

Jazz Concert Review: An Improvised Saturday at the 2016 Newport Jazz Festival

August 3, 2016
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This year I resolved to do an unapologetic fan experience at Newport Jazz.

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Fuse News/Tip: Quilt at Sinclair on June 24

June 22, 2016
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The wellsprings of Quilt’s sound are diverse – psychedelics, dream pop, Beach ‘n’ Beatle harmony groups, folk-rock and, I swear, punkoid racket at times.

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Fuse Preview: Singer/Songwriter Leyla McCalla at Atwoods Tavern — Sensuous Smarts

April 8, 2016
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Vari-Colored Songs was the sweetest boost anyone has given Langston Hughes in decades.

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Rock Remembrance: Prime David Bowie – Let’s Paint Our Faces and Dance

January 11, 2016
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Before Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, before Iggy Pop, before the New York Dolls, David Bowie was my personal post-’60s music inamorata.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: Ink in the Blanks—Bill Griffith Gathers and Discovers His Past with Graphics

November 11, 2015
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If anyone needs more evidence that graphic memoirs are the equal of purely literary ones, Invisible Ink closes the case for good.

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Fuse Blues CD Review: Blues Spirit Catcher—Ironing Board Sam Beats the Odds Again

October 21, 2015
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Blues feeling remains as unpredictable as ever. Who would have guessed that its strongest incarnation this year so far would be Ironing Board Sam’s Super Spirit?

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World Music CD Review: Globetrotting Musician Stephan Micus — “Smartly Sublime”

September 3, 2015
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Claims that Stephan Micus erases international boundaries and makes one-world music get it backward. You visit his world on his records.

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Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty

July 3, 2015
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So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”

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Album Review: Just Weird Enough — Axel Krygier’s Art-Pop Finds the Fun Spot

May 11, 2015
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Axel Krygier wisely treats the album’s framing concept as lightly as possible, turning Monsieur Bigfoot into a sort of Everyhominid who offers existential-woe comments on a variety of subjects.

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Fuse News: The Vijay Iyer Trio — Where It’s At

April 3, 2015
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No disputing it – right now, Vijay Iyer is The Man on jazz piano.

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