Jim Farber
Music Critic and Writer at Freelance
I've been praising and panning music for scores of outlets for over 30 years now. email: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jim Farber
In the late 1950s, when photography critic Vince Aletti was in his mid-teens, he stumbled upon a clutch of magazines at a local newsstand that seemed to speak directly to him. From their covers to the pages inside, the pocket-sized magazines were packed with strikingly composed images of nearly naked, finely muscled men, many of whom appeared to have a secret rapport with each other. “I remember getting really turned on by that,” Aletti recalls, sitting in his apartment in New York’s East Village.
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3 weeks ago |
sfcv.org | Jim Farber
A new ensemble with deep Hollywood roots will give its debut concert on May 22 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. The Scott Dunn Orchestra, named for its conductor, is devoted to showcasing movie music as played by Los Angeles’ fine session musicians.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Jim Farber
Thirty years ago, when the music writer Jim Abbott tried to track down the “lost” folk singer Jackson C Frank, he had no idea what he’d find. All he had to guide him was a tip from an old associate of Frank’s to go to a housing facility in Queens, New York, where he was told he was living. When he finally arrived there, the man he saw bore no relation to the Frank he was expecting. “All I had to go on was his album cover from 1965 when he was much younger and looked pretty dashing,” Abbott said.
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1 month ago |
sfcv.org | Jim Farber
Long Beach Opera could not have found a more ideal setting for its time-defying production of The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts than the Art Deco splendor of the RMS Queen Mary. From the moment you crossed the gangplank onto the great ship’s Promenade Deck, you entered a different world, a floating historical relic where the ghostly spirits of generations mingled — from the glamour of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to the wide-eyed wonder of today’s tourists.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Jim Farber
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RT @JimFarberMusic: By @jimfarbermusic The amazingly sad story of the great "lost" songwriter Jackson C. Frank in today's Guardian https://…
By @jimfarbermusic The amazingly sad story of the great "lost" songwriter Jackson C. Frank in today's Guardian https://t.co/DoiSsRXHCg
RT @Independent: The Scottish singer-songwriter has long found inspiration in other musicians, including the curmudgeonly Van Morrison who…