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\ntoday with the launch of Rifftides<\/B><\/FONT><\/A>. He says his blog,
\nthough largely about jazz, will be “dedicated to taking music seriously,” but “with only enough
\nseriousness to maintain reasonable dignity.” He’s already taken on Ben Ratliff of The New York
\nTimes in Crystal Ball Criticism<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> for “the
\namazing critical leap of predicting that a musical event will be uneventful” before it begins. The
\nevent, at the JVC Jazz Festival-New York, is tonight’s “Piano Masters Salute Piano Legends”
\nconcert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"