The Brooklyn Rail

Music

• "The Magical Point of Contact of Man with Nature": WADADA LEO SMITH, SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (CUNEIFORM RECORDS)

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  By David Shirley

• Boy Meets Girl: LINDSTRØM & CHRISTABELLE, REAL LIFE IS NO COOL (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, IRM (BECAUSE)

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  By Kate Silver

• Some Kinds of Love: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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  By Kurt Gottschalk

• Low Art and High Drama at the Met

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  By George Grella

• Jazz in New Places: THE JOHN ESCREET PROJECT/TAYLOR HASKINS & RECOMBINATION AT DROM

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  By Harper Willis

• OUTTAKES

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  By Steve Dalachinsky

• Revival Times at Union Pool

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  By Michael Cohn-Geltner