Jon Pareles Quotes
- Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.
- Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.
- 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 horn…
- Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Holeâ€â€¦Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows…
- 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…
- The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile…