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Treme's third season is in the money

From the beginning, Treme has been too much — too many stories, too many angles, too many scenes.

By: JON GARELICK | September 18, 2012

Live jazz from Joe Lovano, Eric Hofbauer, and Taylor Ho Bynum

Is there a more buoyant personality in jazz than Joe Lovano?

By: JON GARELICK | September 17, 2012

Fall jazz preview

Bean bags
The former day of celebration has now grown to encompass one long weekend that includes ticketed club and concert events.

By: JON GARELICK | September 19, 2012

Boardwalk Empire enters another bloody, tender season

Bullies
If you have not yet seen seasons 1 or 2 of the Prohibition-era, Atlantic City–set HBO drama Boardwalk Empire (whose new season begins Sunday at 9pm), then stop here and get thee to HBO OnDemand or, better yet, the brand-spanking new season 2 DVD/Blu-ray package. I can not be responsible for spoilers herein.

By: JON GARELICK | September 13, 2012

The church, R&B, country, jazz, and Ray Charles

Ultimate fusion
Pan-stylistic fiddler and Berklee professor Matt Glaser was trying to come up with a selling point for his bosses at school on an idea for his American Roots Program — a symposium on blues, country music, and jazz.

By: JON GARELICK | September 04, 2012

Strike Back blows shit up!

Wham-Bam!
How many post-9/11 action-adventure roller-coaster rides can we take?

By: JON GARELICK | August 17, 2012

Newport Jazz Festival 2012

Too hot to cover
Every year the Newport Jazz Festival confronts with the same dilemma: how to objectively judge music presented under such variable conditions.

By: JON GARELICK | August 10, 2012

Christian aTunde Adjuah Scott takes issue

No identity crisis
Since one of the first times I heard Christian Scott — at Sweet Lorraine's in New Orleans — he's always had an edge.

By: JON GARELICK | August 07, 2012

Pat Metheny's Unity Band

All is One
Pat Metheny's career has in a sense been defined by his omnivorous curiosity.

By: JON GARELICK | July 27, 2012

Jazz death at ’GBH

Gone, gone, gone
"I don't know if we made a difference, but we had a hell of time," said Ken Field at the "WGBH Jazz Funeral" last week. True dat, Ken.

By: JON GARELICK | July 12, 2012

Tom Wetmore plays his band

Composer’s desire
Tom Wetmore's new The Desired Effect (Crosstown) is both tantalizingly familiar and utterly strange.

By: JON GARELICK | July 10, 2012

Duke Robillard and Surface to Air work the tradition

Easy listening
It all comes from somewhere.

By: JON GARELICK | June 26, 2012

Theo Bleckmann takes on Kate Bush

Role playing
It's easy to inflate an artist's reputation with words like "visionary," but in the case of Theo Bleckmann, it's apt.

By: JON GARELICK | June 11, 2012

Dr. John at the Paradise

ID Check
One of the things I've always liked about Dr. John is his ability to turn any music he touches into his own — Duke Ellington, Tin Pan Alley, Howlin' Wolf Blues.

By: JON GARELICK | June 08, 2012

Dengue Fever and Omar Souleyman at the Paradise

International sounds of love
I was hoping for cross-cultural pandemonium at the Paradise's double-bill of Dengue Fever and Omar Souleyman, and the two-hour show left me mostly satisfied.

By: JON GARELICK | June 05, 2012

Mary Halvorson's enchanted wood; Plus, Ben Powell's new CD

Wild things
When guitarist Mary Halvorson began taking lessons with Joe Morris as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, she was excited about the prospect of playing duos with one of her guitar heroes.

By: JON GARELICK | May 31, 2012

The Fringe at 40

Sophisticated primitives
"I'm feeling a little light-headed," George Garzone told the audience last Saturday at the Boston Conservatory Theater, closing his eyes and bringing a hand to his brow.

By: JON GARELICK | May 15, 2012

The 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

New Orleans Notes
New Orleans Notes

By: JON GARELICK | May 04, 2012

Esperanza Spalding’s “Society”

Charmed agenda
The first time I was knocked out by Esperanza Spalding, she wasn't even playing — she was talking.

By: JON GARELICK | April 18, 2012

Walt Whitman via Fred Hersch

A new "Song of Myself"
The pianist and composer Fred Hersch first encountered the poetry of Walt Whitman as a student at New England Conservatory in 1976.

By: JON GARELICK | April 19, 2012