My tastes have always been everywhere and all over, whatever the time of year. But there is a seasonal connection for me — some books, movies, and music are inseparable from the season in …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM“Forgiveness is the key and love is the answer… Have a good Jazz Fest, but also have a good life.” The post Music Review: The de-Stones’d New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 50th …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PMThe show had an undercurrent that brought to the fore all the issues that have put Wynton Marsalis at the center of the culture wars.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMMostly the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ends up being about the multiplicity and infinite variety of cultures and traditions, including generic funk.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMYou could sometimes be halfway into a Bad Plus show before hearing anything like a jazz chord from pianist Ethan Iverson.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMThe throughline of "Town and Country" is folk — austere, hardscrabble.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMThe sense of place, the passage of time, the death-haunted imagery, and the coolly rhythmic verse gives Lucinda Williams’s songs their traction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:33PMThe Fest’s music is mostly about audience participation — whether it’s dancing, sing-a-longs, or shouts of call-and-response.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMBut dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival -- a sound that contains multitudes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:45AMGunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:16PMBill Frisell and his quartet performed a program of well-worn American hits whose juxtapositions allowed you to make your own cross-references and draw your own conclusions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AMThe New Orleans JazzFest is made for omnivorous gluttons, which makes it a perfect complement to the region’s cuisine.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:58AMViolinist Regina Carter and her band drew the audience in with a sustained mood of intimacy, warmth, and unfailingly beautiful playing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:58PMThere were times during the performance when Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and the band seemed to fully enter the Ottoman empire.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:29AMOne of the most remarkable features of Cosmos — and possibly its greatest public service — has been its matter-of-fact, understated championing of the scientific method.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:55PMKris Adams is one of those singers who can do amazing things without ostentatious showiness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36AMMostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AMIn moments like these, the band Riverside captures the Jimmy Giuffre ideals of sonority and counterpoint — where even the drums act as another complementary linear voice.
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