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...Where artists share a space, as with Celmins and Orozco, the curators' pairings are almost always smart and appropriate. Only the pairing of Wendy Ewald's photographs of children's dreams with Sue Williams' painted entanglements of sexual organs and orifices seems heavy-handed and literal in its Freudian pop psychology...
...certain kind of discerning television viewer it remains a pop-culture mystery why millions more Americans this season tuned to CBS's lead-armed Walker, Texas Ranger on Saturday nights than to ABC's nuanced romantic drama Relativity. To many TV producers this is not a vexing question, however. Nothing is more dramatic than the conflict between life and death, they will tell you (even if the conflict involves Chuck Norris). Slice-of-life series almost never win the ratings that crime shows pull in, which is why eight of the nine new network dramas premiering this spring feature people...
...seemed a long shot--a greatest-hits album from a bluegrass band that had never had a hit--but Now That I've Found You by Alison Krauss and Union Station was the from-nowhere find of 1995. A beguiling sample of R. and B., pop and blue-eyed gospel tethered to Krauss' soaring soprano, the CD sold well, won some Grammys and established its lead singer as proof there was still purity and clarity in country music...
...Long So Wrong ought to be Krauss's sellout album--the one where she signs with a big label, paddles in the pop mainstream, does a Streisand duet, maybe has a few cuts produced by Babyface. But Krauss is a constant lass: she's been with Union Station and Rounder Records since she was a 14-year-old fiddle phenom (she's now 25). The new set has no guest shots or power-pop charts. It's just 48 minutes of beautiful music...
Sinatra has always occupied a gray area between jazz and pop. The small group setting here--vibraphonist Red Norvo's quintet plus longtime Sinatra pianist Bill Miller--frees him to the extent that on some numbers his sense of swing and invention approaches Ella Fitzgerald's joyous, ineluctable pulse (and justifies Capitol's releasing this find on its Blue Note jazz subsidiary). With I've Got You Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn...