Jazz Times Magazine has for some time published a variation on the blindfold test called Before and After, in which a musician of note is asked to comment on musical selections before knowing the identity of the performers and again after learning to whom they were listening. It's fun in print, but it really hits home in online form, when you can hear the selections yourself, read the Before comments and then learn the performers' identity just like the interviewee while you read their comments.
I just happen to have come across a Before and After from March of this year featuring Ellis Marsalis, pianist and patriarch of the Marsalis clan, who will be a guest of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band as part of "The New Orleans Revue" on October 15 at Symphony Hall, nudge, nudge.
This month's Before and After is with tap dance king Savion Glover - a bit of a departure for the column. Alert blog readers and Celebrity Series patrons will remember that we presented Mr. Glover in Classical Savion at Symphony Hall last year...not that you need a tie-in to read the article.
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