target='new"'>
align=left border=0>Any fan of Paul Desmond, let alone
href="http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/archives/2005/06/doug_ramsey.html#more"
target='new"'>Doug Ramsey joins the
ArtsJournal blogging crew
today with the launch of
target='new"'>Rifftides. He says his blog,
though largely about jazz, will be “dedicated to taking music seriously,” but “with only enough
seriousness to maintain reasonable dignity.” He’s already taken on Ben Ratliff of The New York
Times in
href="http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/archives/2005/06/crystal_ball_cr.html"
target='new"'>Crystal Ball Criticism for “the
amazing critical leap of predicting that a musical event will be uneventful” before it begins. The
event, at the JVC Jazz Festival-New York, is tonight’s “Piano Masters Salute Piano Legends”
concert.
NEW BLOGGER ON THE BLOCK
June 15, 2005 by
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Done. Thanks for the catch.George Butler on Unbuttoned: Samuel Beckett Meets William Osborne
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