Arkansas son C. Michael Bailey has been in hiding since he revealed his family's abolitionist position prior to the War Between the States. He is a Senior Reviewer for All About Jazz and publisher of the webblog Kultur. Michael’s day job is spent as a clinical data analyst.
Michael believes but never follows that it it better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and relieve all doubt...
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Music Review: J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations by Simone Dinnerstein
Dinnerstein's perfomance is pushed beyond technique into the realm of emotive realization.
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Music Review: Scott Joplin, Volume 2 by Benjamin Loeb
For those listeners who prefer his or her Joplin plowed in straight rows, Benjamin Loeb’s disc is guaranteed to please.
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Music Review: Scott Joplin, Volume 1 by Alexander Peskanov
This disc inaugurates another Naxos series that should more than win over the fussiest of ragtimers.
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A Scott Joplin Primer
What is more American than Scott Joplin?
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Book Review: The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
...any book that requires outside study by the reader is a worthy book for consumption.
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TV Review: NCIS - "Angel of Death"
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
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DVD Review: The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River
...can The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River be viewed as artistic expression and recognized as propaganda at the same time?
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Music Review: Chanticleer - And On Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass
Chanticleer’s newest recording, And on Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass is in many ways its most ambitious and satisfying project.
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Book Review: Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Dr. Matthew Shardlake makes his debut as the newest historic sleuth.
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Book Review: The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi
The Last Cato intelligently continues the vein opened by Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code.
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