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Music Review: The Lori Bell Quartet – ‘Brooklyn Dreaming’
Bell has a vision, and Hendelman, Thiroux, and Witek buy into that vision with gusto.
Read More »Concert Review: The Incomparable Janis Ian in Lincoln Center’s Appel Room, February 5, 2016
Janis Ian's work is sheer artistic genius.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Sinatra: All or Nothing at All’
This two-part documentary takes a detailed, intelligent look at the life of Frank Sinatra, who merged artistic greatness and enormous popularity like no one else in the 20th century.
Read More »Music Review: ‘Getz/Gilberto 76’ and ‘Moments in Time’
Two albums of previously unreleased live Stan Getz recordings are out this month.
Read More »Concert Review: Composer Portraits – Ashley Fure (International Contemporary Ensemble, NYC 2/4/16)
Ashley Fure's non-melodic, mostly non-rhythmic music makes you think, and her focus on the physicality of instruments – the wood and strings and glue and metal – gives her work, especially her newest pieces, a visceral appeal too.
Read More »Music Review: Jack Mouse and Scott Robinson with Janice Borla – ‘Three Story Sandbox’
Mouse, Robinson, and Borlas demonstrate what seems to be a gentler side of free jazz.
Read More »Music Review: Kylie Odetta – ‘High Dreamer’ EP
Stripped down to bare essentials, ‘High Dreamer’ highlights the strengths of this young artist.
Read More »Music Review: Bryan Deister – ‘Spines of the Heart’
Bryan Deister is a classically trained musician who released an experimental rock album. Intriguing, no?
Read More »Music Review: John Helix – ‘Tune Out, Turn Off, Disconnect’
A well thought-out and executed album, ‘Tune Out, Turn Off, Disconnect’ remains quite melancholic throughout.
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