Air Check

It’s tempting to compare Franklin Bruno’s substantive quick takes on recent work by Jan Clausen, Pattie McCarthy, and Matthea Harvey to the kind of condensed intelligence and fair-game questioning you get in pop music crit, but that’s sort of like pointing out Clark Coolidge is a jazz drummer when you talk about his verse. If column inches devoted to 'the pome' are disappearing, this may be a working model for air checks of the expanding now.