"Transformation": The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Ted Nash and Glenn Close
Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Posted Jan 23, 2020
Restaurant week began for me at The Ribbon on West 44th Street. One of two venues with the same name (the other is off Central Park on West 72nd Street), The Ribbon is a roomy, comfy spot ensconced in the middle of the theater district.
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Posted Jan 21, 2020
Ken Burns’s epic history of “Country Music” covered virtually every aspect of that great American musical form, except, now that I think of it, one very important point: that country & western, like rock and also jazz, Mr. Burn’s other well-explored musical passion, has been a musical form that originated and flourished in the USA - with some foreign roots to be sure - and was then famously re-gifted to the rest of the world.
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Nektar, which celebrated its 50th anniversary a few months ago, is one of those not-so-little rock bands that could. Their music was, essentially, too involved, too complicated, too “progressive” for the band to have hit singles, and even their albums were not the kind of surface-y, hook-y pop that generated Billboard chart sales - most of their most memorable “songs,” if that’s the word for them, were 40 minutes long.
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Posted Jan 17, 2020