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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Vermont Jazz Center Emerging Artist Festival

Nov 20–21, 2020
72 Cotton Mill Hill, Brattleboro, VT 05301, United States

Dazzlingly contrapuntal guitarist Pasquale Grasso and his trio are joined by Samara Joy, the almost eerily apt winner of the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, whose voice unreels from plush velvet to coruscating silk in the space of a phrase. Next night, volcanic alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and her quartet attend the still-steaming caldara of John and Alice Coltrane. —E.E.