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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Arts Commentary: Is Art Ever Out of Season? — Anti-seasonal hits and Non-hits by Jon Garelick

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

Friday, May 3, 2019

Music Review: The de-Stones’d New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 50th Anniversary by Jon Garelick

“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 03:24PM

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Concert Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis by Jon Garelick

The 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 09:06AM

Friday, May 4, 2018

Music Review: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2018 by Jon Garelick

Mostly 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 09:42AM

Monday, November 20, 2017

Jazz Concert Review: The Bad Plus — Say again? by Jon Garelick

You 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 10:33AM

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Jazz CD Review: Dominique Eade and Ran Blake’s Personal Vision of Americana on “Town and Country” by Jon Garelick

The throughline of "Town and Country" is folk — austere, hardscrabble.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AM

Monday, May 15, 2017

Music Review: Singer/Songwriter Lucinda Williams — Americana Chanteuse by Jon Garelick

The 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 03:33PM

Friday, May 5, 2017

Music Review: Notes from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival by Jon Garelick

The 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 02:42PM

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Fuse Music Review: New Orleans, Tradition, and Mingling the Trashy and the Transcendent by Jon Garelick

But 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 10:45AM

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Arts Fuse Appreciation: Gunther Schuller –The Eloquent Ear by Jon Garelick

Gunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:16PM

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Fuse Jazz Review: Bill Frisell’s Americana Dreams by Jon Garelick

Bill 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 11:16AM

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Fuse Music Review: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015 by Jon Garelick

The New Orleans JazzFest is made for omnivorous gluttons, which makes it a perfect complement to the region’s cuisine.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:58AM

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Fuse Concert Review: Violinist Regina Carter’s Ancestral Magic by Jon Garelick

Violinist 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 04:58PM

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Fuse Jazz Review: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & whatsnext at Scullers — An Intoxicating Mix by Jon Garelick

There were times during the performance when Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and the band seemed to fully enter the Ottoman empire.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:29AM

Saturday, June 7, 2014

TV Commentary: “Cosmos” vs. the Science Deniers by Jon Garelick

One 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 04:55PM

Monday, June 2, 2014

Fuse Jazz Review: Singer Kris Adams — Making Beautiful Music, Easily by Jon Garelick

Kris Adams is one of those singers who can do amazing things without ostentatious showiness.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36AM

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Fuse Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival by Jon Garelick

Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AM

Monday, April 21, 2014

Fuse Jazz Review: Jimmy Giuffre — Through the Lens of Dave Douglas and Riverside by Jon Garelick

In 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.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22AM

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