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Paul Robicheau

Jazz Album Review: Charles Lloyd & the Marvels — Still Telling Genre-Blurring Stories

It’s rare to find a band that so naturally assimilates its individual voices to strike a collective palette.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Bill-Frisell, Charles Lloyd, Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Eric Harland, Greg Leisz, Paul Robicheau

Jazz Special Feature: Chick Corea (1941-2021) — Memories and Impressions

Fuse critics pay homage to Chick Corea performances and recordings that they found memorable.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, and Michael Ullman, Chick Corea, David Daniel, Evelyn Rosenthal, Milo Miles, Paul Robicheau, Steve Elman, Steve Feeney, Steve Provizer, Tim Jackson

Folk/Pop Album Review: “The Burnt Pines” — Seamless Cross-Cultural Chemistry

This surprisingly seamless record belies its logistical shuffles and players’ cultural differences with a relaxed sonic identity.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Adraela Records, Paul Robicheau, The Burnt Pines

Arts Feature: Music That Sustained Us Through the Year of the Pandemic

With concerts all but wiped off the calendar by the pandemic, our critics naturally spent their time with recordings (and virtual live shows).

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Music Tagged: Jason M. Rubin, Milo Miles, Paul Robicheau, Scott McLennan

Hip-Hop Concert Review: Run the Jewels’ Powerful “Holy Calamavote”

The best thing about Holy Calamavote may be that it presents Run the Jewels in a live presentation of RTJ4 that rivals the atmospheric might of the record itself.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hip Hop, Holy Calamavote, Killer Mike, Paul Robicheau, Pharrell Williams, Run the Jewels

Arts Remembrance: Eddie Van Halen

Not since Jimi Hendrix had there been such a game-changer for the electric six-string.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music, Rock, Uncategorized Tagged: Eddie Van Halen, Paul Robicheau, Van Halen

Jazz Concert Review: The Lloyd-Hussain-Lage Trio — Live from Healdsburg

Charles Lloyd and Julian Lage and Zakir Hussain served a loose, flowing 65-minute set with complementary facility that belied the novel circumstances.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Charles Lloyd, Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Julian Lage, Paul Robicheau, Zakir Hussain

Concert Review: Farm Aid 2020 — The Promise of the Real

When Willie dove into “On the Road Again” to close the set, singing of “making music with my friends,” one could envision the same hopes for Farm Aid to resume its annual trek to an amphitheater somewhere in America and stoke the communal cause.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Dave Matthews, Farm Aid, Neil Young, Paul Robicheau, Willie Nelson

Concert Review: The Newport Folk Festival 2020 — Virtual Mission Accomplished

Yes, Newport Folk’s all about the music, but there’s also a collaborative heart at work — and virtual programming spurred donations for the non-profit’s mission to endure.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music Tagged: Deer Tick, Josh Goleman, Newport Folk Festival, Newport Folk Festival 2020, Our Voices Together, Paul Robicheau

Live Concert Review — Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace

The solo format at Alexandra Palace recalled his recent “Conversations with Nick Cave” tours, a similar chance for the singer to deconstruct his songs at the piano, except that he never addressed an imagined audience beyond his lyrics.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Bad Seeds, Idiot Prayer, Nick Cave, Paul Robicheau

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