Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
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