Part two of the catch-up posts, seven weeks' worth of missed CPs.
Sept. 14: Lots of stuff in this issue - the Fall jazz calendar; a review of the recent eight-film Pedro Almodovar retrospective; a review of the animated baseball flick Everyone's Hero; a Cold Open for the pretty-boy warlocks film The Covenant; a preview for Slate.com writer Fred Kaplan's lecture "Are We in the Midst of WWIII?"; a feature on Philly organist Trudy Pitts' inaugural jazz run of the Kimmel Center's new organ; a Pick for a pair of shows by Lebanese saxophonist Christine Sehnaoui; and two Soundadvice previews, for Vijay Iyer's Fieldwork and for the Nels Cline/Glenn Kotche duo. Whew.
Sept. 21: A review of Jackass: Number Two; a preview of a retrospective of the work of self-mutilating performance artist Gunter Brus; a feature on trombonist and denture wearer Grachan Moncur III (ignore the misidentified pic of Khan Jamal, who played with Moncur that week); a Pick for the Tranestop Jazz Festival, which brought Archie Shepp to town; and two Soundadvice previews, for the Wally Shoup Trio and for saxophonist Don Braden.
Sept. 28: CP's glossy, full-color 25th anniversary edition included my review of Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep; a review of the British black comedy (?) Keeping Mum; a preview of Winterthur's Fashion in Film exhibit; a Pick for the Print Center's Camera Obscura project; a Pick for a talk by Ashley Kahn, author of the recent histoy of Impulse! Records, The House That Trane Built; and a Soundadvice preview for Gene Coleman's Ensemble Noamnesia performing with visiting Chinese musicians.
Oct. 5: A review of Pedro Almodovar's Law of Desire, part of the retrospective I overviewed three weeks back; a feature on trombonist/electronics experimentalist George Lewis; a Pick for bassist Dave Holland; and two Soundadvice previews, for Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel and the duo of Han Bennink and Peter Brotzmann.
Oct. 12: The bi-annual Music Issue, for which I contributed a piece on Philly improviser Jack Wright and his house of musicians; and for the regular Music section, a feature on pianist Uri Caine (interviewed from the front porch of my friends' place in Glendale, CA on our last day of vacation); and a Pick for the duo of Evan Parker and Ned Rothenberg; and another Almodovar review, this one for Matador.
Oct. 19: A Pick for atmospheric Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko; and two Soundadvice previews, for Mat Maneri's Pentagon and Eyvind Kang's Dying Ground.
Oct. 26: A feature on Philly tenorman and Saxophone Choir leader Odean Pope; a Soundadvice preview of Slought Foundation's Philly Jazz Fest; and a review of Christopher Nolan's not-really-quicker-than-the-eye magic-off The Prestige.
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