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On April 27, 2025
I finished watching the Netflix series Break It All: A History of Rock in Latin America this week and while I wouldn't say it is breaking any new ground in the art of documentary film, this straightforward series is worth your time. It is the...

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On April 19, 2025

I had the privilege of seeing Tomeka Reid's A Tribute to Ellington project last week at Firehouse 12 in New Haven. The great (genius, one might say) cellist was commissioned.

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On April 5, 2025
Wow, Big Ears. Just....wow, I saw 31 sets of music in 4 days. I am pretty proud of that. Almost all of these were either full sets or close to full sets. Probably the reason I was able to do this so effectively was, frankly,...

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On March 8, 2025

I saw the great Jason Moran last weekend at the Berkelee School of Music, performing his Duke Ellington repertoire, which you can read a bit about here. It was astoundingly.

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On March 1, 2025
I saw two shows in the last two weeks. The first was our old LGM friend Jason Isbell, doing a solo show at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Little known fact, King Crimson's "Providence," off of Red is titled that because it was recorded during...
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On February 2, 2025
Sometimes, readers buy me things. It's amazing. There's a reader--a writer you might have heard of actually--who I will just refer to as their first initial of "P", who sends me a lot of books and may the higher power of your choice bless you...

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On January 11, 2025

I don't often read scholarly music books, but I just finished B. Brian Foster's, 2020 book, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life. Foster.

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