Saturday, December 5, 2015
A homage to the amazing musical talents that passed away this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMThursday, November 5, 2015
"They are seekers, like we are, and they connect with the music that we play.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Atticus Ross’ success in creating these pieces results in a listening experience quite a bit more harrowing and evocative than the lush and sunny Beach Boys harmonies people are accustomed…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
This year’s festival, themed “Jazz: The Voice of the People,” will explore jazz music in all of its global colors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:56AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Jon Fine's memoir of his career as a guitarist is an intriguing blend of history, sociology, entertainment, and a healthy dose of after-hours pulp.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:52AMFriday, August 14, 2015
There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar's composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:22AMMonday, July 27, 2015
For the better part of two hours at Lynn Auditorium, this version of Deep Purple rocked a sold-out crowd chiefly made up of 50-somethings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMMonday, July 6, 2015
A handy-dandy guide to seven newish summer arts festivals in the Boston area. They are all free of charge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:52AMFriday, July 3, 2015
This was probably the loudest, rockingest Brian Wilson show I’ve ever seen.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:46AMMonday, April 13, 2015
No Pier Pressure is Brian Wilson's 11th solo album and it shows little diminution of his still-prodigious talents.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:25PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Esperanza Spalding is not simply beyond reproach – she is a young lioness the likes of which the jazz world has really never seen before.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMWednesday, August 6, 2014
Given the diverse musical tastes of label head Bob Lord, it should be no surprise that the second annual PARMA Music Festival will be a thoroughly eclectic affair.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:21AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
JP Porchfest organizers see it as an opportunity not only to provide grassroots entertainment, but also to launch a community-building event that represents and celebrates the area’s ethni…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:27AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
One of drummer Ra-kalam Bob Moses's most resonant teachings was that it is better to find the infinite possibilities within a single idea than to keep changing ideas every ten seconds.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:08PMWednesday, June 11, 2014
Perhaps because real life is so painful, so tragic, we cannot bear to see evil in full flight. Evil must be relative, it must fly on wings of rationale, on a broomstick of retribution.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Loose Salute uses its genuine love for the too-little-heard Michael Nesmith and too-little-respected Monkees songbooks as a springboard for inventive arrangements that are true to the unique…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMSaturday, February 15, 2014
Boston was once the largest Jewish community in the country without a Jewish music festival -- now the five-year-old Boston Jewish Music Festival (BJMF) is one of the most-attended of its ki…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:27AMMonday, December 16, 2013
"Learning to Listen" is less about a jazz journey than it is about a prodigiously talented artist for whom music came easily while his own life was a puzzle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:35AM 
