Articles tagged "terence blanchard"

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007 Feature

The Best Albums of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Dec.07] :. From tech house to Radiohead and Americana to indie and everything in between, PopMatters picks the best 60 albums of 2007.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007 Feature

The Best Jazz of 2007

by Will Layman

[11.Dec.07] :. In spite of the perception of jazz as an increasingly niche market, the year's best show a style of music that remains ever youthful in its exploration of new territories, expanding its diversity and range of expression.

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Terence Blanchard: A Tale of Gods Will

by Will Layman

[15.Aug.07] :. The New Orleans trumpeter's lyrical meditation on disaster.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Aug.06] :. When the Levees Broke, elegant and anguished, encourages you to see, and more importantly, to care about and act on what you see. It is political in the most significant sense, and won't let you forget it.

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Terence Blanchard: Flow

by Will Layman

[3.Jun.05] :. Another former 'Young Lion' on trumpet nods toward Bitches Brew in his middle age. But the sound is as much Metheny as it is Miles, despite Herbie Hancock being the producer. Through it all, however, Blanchard plays singingly.

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