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Creative music should challenge us, make us think and move us forward. Music can make one's life better and fuller, one of life's greatest pleasures.

Showing posts with label string quartet. Show all posts

Showing posts with label string quartet. Show all posts

Monday, June 24, 2024

Challenges, Changes, and New Avenues for Expression

Photo: Shervin Lainez In 2021, in the midst of the Pandemic, composer and producer Ryan Truesdell was worried about the future of the Big...

Monday, July 25, 2022

Hear What I've Been Listening To (7/25/22)

String quartets are usually not the bailiwick of this blog but there have been a slew of new (and, to be fair) older recordings that have ca...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Boxes Filled With History, Boxes Filled With Music

January 24th was the 83rd birthday anniversary of saxophonist, composer, arranger, conceptualist, and story-teller Julius Hemphill (1938-...

Monday, August 17, 2020

Summertime Hues (Part 1)

Life has been busy around this reviewer's household and different communities but that does not stop (thankfully) the new releases comin...

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Her Story, His Music, Our History

Photo: Jon Grönsoos Wadada Leo Smith (born 1941) first picked up the trumpet at the age of 12 and it seems as if he hasn't put it d...

Monday, May 22, 2017

A Great Lake

If one takes a close look at the ongoing career of saxophonist, composer, and activist Oliver Lake (pictured left), you'll see a pers...

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