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The release of previously unavailable recordings from Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane are causes for celebration. Two unforgettable voices in jazz -- are back!
Eugene Jarecki's ramshackle, occasionally provocative, and frequently entertaining documentary on Elvis Presley gets some things wrong.
Big Deal differs from other Bob Fosse biographies in its focus on the dances themselves.
For all its Edwardian setting and its mid-twentieth-century no-exit philosophy, The Inspector Calls speaks with ease to our own times, bedeviled with "alternate facts" and ethical doubts.
You might argue that this session was forgotten, but this new release shouldn't be thought of as lost -- because no one was looking for it
Rob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.
Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio's wonderful new French Moments.
The action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man's land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.
Colin Carr supplied an extraordinary performance of Bach's Six Cello Suites.
Conductor Aapo Häkkinen explores Robert Schumann's writing for chorus;Andrew Manze caps off his three-volume Mendelssohn symphony survey with a glorious performance of the oddball Symphony …
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philh…
Nightconcert contains enough that is new and fresh to make this album one of the exciting discoveries of the year.
Garth Edwin Sunderland's new chamber adaptation of this opera's score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year's best and most important recording.
You know a Cowboy Junkies tune the second that you hear it, but the songs don't come off as formulaic or produced for mass consumption.
Anna Shelest's new recording of piano-and-orchestra pieces by Anton Rubinstein is one of those albums that makes you want to rethink Rubinstein's relative neglect in the broader canon " almo…
Fleabag is a clever, frenetic and coolly smart series, balancing humor with an increasingly dark intensity.
"Resistance is futile. But resistance seems necessary."
Berber guitarist Omara "Bombino" Moctar proved that the gifts behind the fingers are still all that matters.
"Our film has community and spirituality," says Amy Geller. "It also has conflict."
This edition of Wheels of Soul works just fine as a display of post-Allman Brothers Band/post-Lynyrd Skynyrd/ post-Tom Petty musical sensibilities shaped in the South.
"They travel the world and have for years," says Ellen Seeling, "sending the message that there are no women good enough to be in this organization."
One of the most astonishing sets of my week in Montreal featured two Frenchmen, accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien.
Among the festival's highlights: pianist-singer Jeremy Dutcher, who arrived on the stage of the tiny club Gesu dressed in shorts and a long flowing black robe with a hood.
Pianist Constantine Finehouse and violinist Daniel Kurganov are well-matched musicians, and have recorded a superb album.
