My music week was dominated by attending the Long Play Festival in Brooklyn, put on by the new music collective Bang on a Can that has become such an important force in modern music. What I like about this festival is that it is fundamentally...
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I saw two excellent shows last week. I finally saw the great Rodney Crowell, at the Narrows Center in Fall River. I'm not sure why I had never seen him,.
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.
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 to write some tribute music to the Duke. Amusingly, she admitted that she had no...
I was in Chicago last weekend for a conference and so naturally, there was music to see. In Chicago, there's always amazing music to see. Wish I had lived there.
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.
So it's extremely unusual that I don't pick the shows I am going to see. My wife is not a huge music person. She has her favorites and that's why I spent a lot of money to get really good Jason Isbell solo tickets that...
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.
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.
I saw Bill Frisell play last week at the Narrows Center in Fall River. It was my 7th Frisell show over the last 30 years and one of the best ones. I have detailed my journey with Frisell in the past here. For years, he...
Shows! Shows! Shows! After a long time without seeing a show because I was in Mexico, I've seen three in a week in a half. The most important to me.
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.