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 knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’… — 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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