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The Mog Father put up a video today that's prompted me to write a post that's been floating around in my head for some time. David's post is about the death of music criticism, which I hope isn't the case, but there is something to be said about the difference between good music criticism and bad music criticism.A while back, I took issue with AP's Ron Harris' review of Already Free, the new al...
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There are a number of factors that contributed to Alicia Keys' phenomenal success back in 2001, not the least of which was the dogged promotion given to her work by Clive Davis. That fact might lead someone like me, who regularly laments the way lesser-known yet equally, if not more, talented artists struggle to simply be heard, to dismiss her has merely the product of a music industry that has...
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There is no dearth of singing sirens in today's jazz scene. I'm tempted to start naming a few off the top of my head, but the list is so long I'm bound to offend someone by leaving out a name or two (or, given the length of the list and the way my memory has worked as of late, a dozen or two). Every one of them has particularly endearing qualities, and it's often difficult to pick one or two ou...
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