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Hear Guitarist Randy Napoleon Bring the Traditional Forward, on Morning Jazz

Watch Pasquale Grasso Play an Impeccable "Round Midnight" on Guitar, From 'Solo Monk'

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The Fire This Time: Flying Lotus Seeks Rebirth After Mac Miller's Death

By Rodney Carmichael • Oct 9, 2019

I want Flying Lotus to score my reincarnation.

Watch a Webcast of 'The World of Garzone,' on The Checkout Live at Berklee

By Simon Rentner • Oct 7, 2019

George Garzone, stalwart tenorman and hero of Boston's thriving jazz scene, performs with The Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors.

Good Feelings Abound in Take Five, Thanks to Yes! Trio, Bill Frisell, Petros Klampanis & Hiromi

By Nate Chinen • Oct 6, 2019

And a classic throwback from the late pianist Johnny Costa.

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Theater Critic Michael Bourne Reviews Off-Broadway's "The Wrong Man" and "(A)loft Modulation"

By Michael Bourne • Oct 11, 2019

Not only is more and more theatre happening off Broadway, more new theaters also have opened. Theater critic Michael Bourne reviews The Wrong Man, a musical about a man wrongly convicted, and (A)loft Modulation, a play with jazz.

Click above to hear both reviews.

"Pain and Glory" and the "Joker" is on You

By Harlan Jacobson • Oct 11, 2019

Pain and Glory is writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s 21st film in a career spanning nearly 40 years. I caught it at this year’s resplendent Toronto film Festival, but it touched down briefly at the ongoing 57th NY Film Festival, which ends this weekend after 17 days with a reprise of some of the festival’s 40 films.

Stockton hired professor with easy-to-find history of retaliating against female students

By Joe Hernandez & Nicholas Pugliese • Oct 11, 2019

If you type “Andrew Kortyna” into Google, the top results reveal he was fired from a tenured professorship in Pennsylvania after he retaliated against two female students who accused him of sexual harassment.

But officials at Stockton University say they weren’t aware of that part of Kortyna’s record when they hired him in August to a $64,000-a-year post as a visiting assistant professor of physics.

Students say they raised concerns with administrators about the professor the day before the university’s board formally approved his hiring on Sept. 18.

Murphy announces plan to rid N.J. of lead-lined water pipes in ten years

By Joe Hernandez • Oct 11, 2019

New Jersey has announced an ambitious plan to replace all of its aging lead-lined water pipes in the next ten years.

The state also wants to help residents rid their homes of lead-based paint, which is the leading cause of lead poisoning.

“It’s a problem that’s been handed to us by years — and in some cases, by generations — of inaction. Well, this is our time for action,” said Gov. Phil Murphy during a Thursday press conference.

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