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Like a trickster or shapeshifter the bassist Mali Obomsawin slips easily between popular and jazzier forms. As a composer she can be fierce and incantatory, erecting songs that are defiant and accusatory while leaving the listener in their thrall. A citizen of Odanak First Nation, an Abenaki community located near the mouth of the Saint-François River in Quebec, on Sweet Tooth her debut as a bandleader she blended traditional music and indigenous mythology with contemporary chants and squalls of free improvisation...

The opening scene (or cold open) of the third episode of Big Apple introduces a new character and a new situation which deepens our understanding of detective Michael Mooney as played by Ed O'Neill. He is visiting his sister Lois who is in a wheelchair and we come to learn has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis which is commonly referred to...

The first song on Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings by the duo of Mary Halvorson and Ambrose Akinmusire sounds like it could be the last. Akinmusire initiates a bugle call on his trumpet, a funereal albeit slightly smeared air which retains more than a vestige of martial clarity while sounding decidedly crestfallen. As he reaches a lofty and stirring peak...