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Elsa at 75: The Cambridge photographer looks back


Elsa Dorfman, now 75, is the most unassuming of Cambridge literary/art-world legends.
By: JON GARELICK  |  October 17, 2012
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Michael Formanek Quartet at the Regattabar


The music of the Michael Formanek Quartet offers the listener a kind of tough love.
By: JON GARELICK  |  October 05, 2012
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Interview: The radicalization of Fran Lebowitz


Fran Lebowitz's writer's block is almost as legendary as her wit.
By: JON GARELICK  |  October 05, 2012
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Homeland's victory lap


Is there a more compelling spectacle in television these days than Claire Danes slowly decompensating into full-on mania?
By: JON GARELICK  |  September 25, 2012
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Live jazz from John Scofield Trio at the Regattabar


Not long into his encore during the first set at the Regattabar Thursday night, guitarist John Scofield stopped the band, walked across the stage and took the sheet music from Steve Swallow's stand.
By: JON GARELICK  |  September 21, 2012
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Treme's third season is in the money


From the beginning, Treme has been too much — too many stories, too many angles, too many scenes.
By: JON GARELICK  |  September 18, 2012
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Live jazz from Joe Lovano, Eric Hofbauer, and Taylor Ho Bynum


Is there a more buoyant personality in jazz than Joe Lovano?
By: JON GARELICK  |  September 17, 2012
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Fall jazz preview

Bean bags
The former day of celebration has now grown to encompass one long weekend that includes ticketed club and concert events.
By: JON GARELICK  |  September 19, 2012
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Boardwalk Empire enters another bloody, tender season

Bullies
If you have not yet seen seasons 1 or 2 of the Prohibition-era, Atlantic City–set HBO drama Boardwalk Empire (whose new season begins Sunday at 9pm), then stop here and get thee to HBO OnDemand or, better yet, the brand-spanking new season 2 DVD/Blu-ray package. I can not be responsible for spoilers herein.
By: JON GARELICK  |  September 13, 2012
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The church, R&B, country, jazz, and Ray Charles

Ultimate fusion
Pan-stylistic fiddler and Berklee professor Matt Glaser was trying to come up with a selling point for his bosses at school on an idea for his American Roots Program — a symposium on blues, country music, and jazz.
By: JON GARELICK  |  September 04, 2012
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Strike Back blows shit up!

Wham-Bam!
How many post-9/11 action-adventure roller-coaster rides can we take?
By: JON GARELICK  |  August 17, 2012
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Newport Jazz Festival 2012

Too hot to cover
Every year the Newport Jazz Festival confronts with the same dilemma: how to objectively judge music presented under such variable conditions.
By: JON GARELICK  |  August 10, 2012
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Christian aTunde Adjuah Scott takes issue

No identity crisis
Since one of the first times I heard Christian Scott — at Sweet Lorraine's in New Orleans — he's always had an edge.
By: JON GARELICK  |  August 07, 2012
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Pat Metheny's Unity Band

All is One
Pat Metheny's career has in a sense been defined by his omnivorous curiosity.
By: JON GARELICK  |  July 27, 2012
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Jazz death at ’GBH

Gone, gone, gone
"I don't know if we made a difference, but we had a hell of time," said Ken Field at the "WGBH Jazz Funeral" last week. True dat, Ken.
By: JON GARELICK  |  July 12, 2012
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Tom Wetmore plays his band

Composer’s desire
Tom Wetmore's new The Desired Effect (Crosstown) is both tantalizingly familiar and utterly strange.
By: JON GARELICK  |  July 10, 2012
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Duke Robillard and Surface to Air work the tradition

Easy listening
It all comes from somewhere.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 26, 2012

Theo Bleckmann takes on Kate Bush

Role playing
It's easy to inflate an artist's reputation with words like "visionary," but in the case of Theo Bleckmann, it's apt.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 11, 2012
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Dr. John at the Paradise

ID Check
One of the things I've always liked about Dr. John is his ability to turn any music he touches into his own — Duke Ellington, Tin Pan Alley, Howlin' Wolf Blues.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 08, 2012
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Dengue Fever and Omar Souleyman at the Paradise

International sounds of love
I was hoping for cross-cultural pandemonium at the Paradise's double-bill of Dengue Fever and Omar Souleyman, and the two-hour show left me mostly satisfied.
By: JON GARELICK  |  June 05, 2012
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