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JON GARELICK

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Francisco Mela

Melao | Ayva
The first tune,“John Ramsay” (named for theBoston drummer), begins with the maze of Lionel Loueke’s acoustic-guitar patterns.
By JON GARELICK  |  August 09, 2007

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Ed Harris does Beethoven

An actor prepares
Ed Harris didn’t exactly have to be talked into the title role in director Agnieszka Holland’s Copying Beethoven .
By JON GARELICK  |  November 08, 2006

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Jersey state of mind

Richard Ford takes a final swing through the Garden State
Richard Ford created Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter (1986), returned to him in Independence Day (1995), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize and a PEN/Faulkner Award, and has now come back to him for what he says is the last time in The Lay of the Land. Listen to audio excerpt of The Lay of the Land
By JON GARELICK  |  November 10, 2006

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Next steps

Dominique Eade returns to disc with a new partner
There’s a perverse, painful pleasure in recalling a particular New York Times Magazine essay by David Hajdu back in December 2000.
By JON GARELICK  |  November 07, 2006

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Sing the song!

Madeleine Peyroux, Berklee Performance Center, November 1, 2006
What’s the deal with Madeleine Peyroux? Slideshow: Madeleine Peyroux at Berklee Performance Center, November 1, 2006  
By JON GARELICK  |  November 02, 2006

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One for all

Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet, Regattabar, October 25, 2006
You have to give Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet an A for deportment.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 30, 2006

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John Stein

Concerto Internacional De Jazz | Whaling City Sound
Guitarist John Stein has a way of making every familiar situation sound new.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 30, 2006

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Fascinating Rhythms

Tomasz Stanko, Regattabar,  October 19, 2006
Sixty-four-year-old jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s music has many virtues: dynamic variety, elastic rhythmic freedom, responsive ensemble interplay, beautiful sound.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 23, 2006

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Madeleine Peyroux

Half The Perfect World | Rounder
It's a retro soundscape of acoustic guitars and bass, brushes playing jazz-shuffle rhythms, vintage keyboards, and Peyroux’s lazy Billie Holiday croon.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 24, 2006

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Midwestern master

Roscoe Mitchell brings the word from Chicago
I was going to say Roscoe Mitchell laughs like Mutley. But that’s not it exactly.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 17, 2006

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Dave Holland

Critical Mass | Dare2/Sunnyside
Once a certified member of the avant-garde, bassist Dave Holland is now mainstream.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 17, 2006

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Tomasz Stanko Quartet

Lontano | ECM
His long-toned lyricism, dreamlike free-floating tempi, and general air of Milesian poetics have made Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s recent visits to the States major events.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 10, 2006

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From the top

Mike Rivard and Club d’Elf finally rehearse
The scene was not atypical for a Thursday night at the Lizard Lounge. Club d'Elf, "Intro/Bass Beatbox" (mp3)
By JON GARELICK  |  October 04, 2006

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The anxiety of influence

Tyner, Coltrane, Kenny Garrett, and Branford Marsalis
“I’m playing changes!” That’s what a young jazz-pianist acquaintance of mine announced exultantly to one of his musical buddies back in the early ’70s.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 26, 2006

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Sense in the sound

When it comes to singing (jazz and otherwise), it's about more than words
In Stephen Sondheim’s old formulation, opera is about music and musical theater is about words.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 20, 2006

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Patricia Barber

Mythologies | Blue Note
Brainy, cool Chicago jazz pianist/singer/songwriter Barber won a Guggenheim Fellowship for this song cycle based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses — the first ever awarded to a songwriter.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 11, 2006

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The talk of the town

Live jazz to die for
With the Boston Globe Jazz & Blues Festival defunct and no other significant local jazz fest in sight, the Beantown Jazz Festival has been stepping up to fill the void.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 13, 2006

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Joe + Judi

Lovano and Silvano are two of a kind
Husband and wife Joe Lovano and Judi Silvano came from different musical backgrounds, but they found home — and each other — in the musical ferment of New York’s late-’70s jazz-loft scene.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 05, 2006

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John Stetch Trio

Bruxin’ | Justin Time
Forty-five years after Bill Evans at the Vanguard, you’d think the possibilities of the mainstream piano trio had been exhausted. John Stetch Trio, "Inuit Talk"   (mp3)
By JON GARELICK  |  August 21, 2006

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Side by side by the waterside

A disparate diet of sounds at Newport
Gold Sounds were in the middle of a hellacious set of Pavement covers at the JVC-Newport Jazz Festival last Saturday afternoon when a woman who appeared to be in her 70s turned to me and said, “This is the sleeper of the day! I was going to get a lemonade and go back to Al Jarreau, but this is happening!” Slideshow: scenes from the JVC-Newport Jazz Festival
By JON GARELICK  |  August 15, 2006
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