Jon Pareles Quotes

#1. 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 of free jazz.

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#2. Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

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#3. A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world ... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

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#4. Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

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#5. [Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere ... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

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#6. Artists are ... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

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#7. Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

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