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JON GARELICK

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Tales from the ’hood

Wynton takes some pot shots at pop culture
From the beat of the first hand-slapped tambourine, you know who you’re listening to.
By JON GARELICK  |  March 20, 2007

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Jewish blues

Brave Old World bring Song of the Lodz Ghetto to Boston
In Boston, it’s the season of Lódz.
By JON GARELICK  |  March 13, 2007

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Brothers and other mothers

Jazz in concerts and clubs
The single hottest ticket among jazz fans this season will be for the Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau Quartet.
By JON GARELICK  |  March 13, 2007

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Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle

Battery Milk | Hyena
The opening “Go-Go’s Theme,” with its heavy backbeat and bar-band tenor-sax theme, screams: “We’re jazz, but not boring!”
By JON GARELICK  |  February 20, 2007

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Do the math

The Vandermark 5, Johnny D's, February 13, 2007
There is plenty of free blowing in this band.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 14, 2007

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Road shows

Dave Fiuczynski, John Tchicai, Chris Potter, and John Stetch live
“I’ve got $30 — which three CDs do you recommend?” The fan was at the corner of the stage at Johnny D’s talking to guitarist Dave Fiuczynski, who was on his knees hawking about half a dozen of his discs with different bands at 10 bucks a pop.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 15, 2007

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Norah Jones

Not Too Late | Blue Note
No, Norah Jones hasn’t turned into Lucinda Williams.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 06, 2007

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Back to the earth

Mili Bermejo’s aesthetic gravity
‘I didn’t want to be a salsa singer — I wanted to be a singer .’
By JON GARELICK  |  January 30, 2007

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Tango talk

Bernardo Monk steps out
Argentine tango has a strong tradition. Which is both good and bad news for Bernardo Monk.
By JON GARELICK  |  January 23, 2007

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Yummy!

Earl Greyhound, the Middle East Downstairs, January 16, 2007
The last time we saw our heroes they were playing in the blazing October sun on an outdoor stage facing the Harvard Coop.
By JON GARELICK  |  January 22, 2007

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Sonny Rollins

Sonny, Please | Doxy
The 2005 release Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert (Milestone) documented a historic occasion: Rollins’s Boston concert at Berklee, four days after the World Trade Center attacks.
By JON GARELICK  |  January 08, 2007

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All them 88s!

 A whole lotta pianists and more
From free to funky, it sometimes seems like a golden age of jazz piano.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 28, 2006

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It’s all true

A year in non-fiction
Here’s a selection of non-fiction books that the Phoenix liked this year, in alphabetical order by author.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 20, 2006

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Tales of the times

A year in fiction
Here, listed alphabetically by author, are 10 of the best fiction and poetry books the Phoenix wrote about in 2006.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 20, 2006

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Let ’em sing!

A year in jazz
Here, in no particular order, are some my favorite things from among the people, CDs, and performances I wrote about this year.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 18, 2006

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Permanent shuffle

Box sets and jazz history
Every year the box sets reshuffle jazz history.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 12, 2006

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Feeling the one

Stefon Harris’s big beat
Stefon Harris’s ideas have sometimes seemed beyond his reach — but that’s okay, unlike a lot of workaday mainstream virtuosos, he’s at least had a few.
By JON GARELICK  |  November 20, 2006

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Moving fast and standing still

Bill Frisell, Berklee Performance Center, November 12, 2006
Every melody was a rhythm, every rhythm a melody, and the pieces developed slowly, big, cloud-like shapes building up to thunderheads, only occasionally breaking into thunder.
By JON GARELICK  |  November 13, 2006

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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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