3 Quotes by 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.

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

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