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Jon Pareles

Jon Pareles Books

Journalist

Jon Pareles is a renowned music journalist who has been a music critic for The New York Times since 1975. His writing spans a wide range of musical genres, from jazz to rock and Latin music, and is known for its insightful analysis and unique perspective.

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

Writing Artist Song Paint Diaries

Author:Jon Pareles

“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.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“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.”

World Self Jobs Artist Easy Rocks Honest This World Stress Ideology Destructive Delicate Glorify Tolls Self Destructive

Author:Jon Pareles

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

Fun Records Musician Amor Joyful Guitarist Hemisphere Euphoric

Author:Jon Pareles

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

Skills Ambition Jazz Composer Ambitious

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

Player Balance Mark Tenderness Facility Understatement

Author:Jon Pareles

“At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.”

Ifs Needs Littles Bigs Seems Band Glory Instruments Jazz Rhythm Eras Tunes Hops Halls Preservation Sections New Orleans Horns Vintage Carnegie Carnegie Hall Rhythm And Blues Jazz Band

Author:Jon Pareles

“Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth.”

Ifs Knows Giving Stills Sound Guitar Holes Teeth Melody Aggression Multiple Feedback Potatoes Distortion Rockers Pithy

Author:Jon Pareles

“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.”

Play Challenges Jazz Hearing Active Piano Solo Pianist Volcanoes Monitoring Free Jazz

Author:Jon Pareles

“The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.”

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Born: 1953
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