Saturday, June 23, 2007
Daily News, June 22
This week, a big spread (ok, I can only take credit for the actual story) on the weekend-long West Oak Lane Jazz & Arts Festival, and a pick for Jaco Pastorius' twin sons and their quartet Way of the Groove.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Metro, June 18-22
June 19: Philly hip-hop dance pioneer Rennie Harris, retrospecting (is that a word?) his work at the Kimmel (pg. 11).
June 21: Louder-than-you rawk duo Big Business, playing a show at the North Star that I sadly had to miss thanks to a flooded basement storage area (pg. 19).
June 22: Prog nirvana at NEARfest, this year blissing out with Hawkwind AND Magma (pg. 19).
June 21: Louder-than-you rawk duo Big Business, playing a show at the North Star that I sadly had to miss thanks to a flooded basement storage area (pg. 19).
June 22: Prog nirvana at NEARfest, this year blissing out with Hawkwind AND Magma (pg. 19).
Citypaper, June 21
This week: a review for Luc Besson's Wonderful Life-plus-statuesque blonde Parisian fairy tale Angel-A, and another for John Dahl's not-bad Ben Kingsley-starring hitman comedy You Kill Me. Music-wise, there's a feature on local saxophonist Daniel Peterson's new multimedia song cycle, to premiere Sunday at the Ethical Society, and a pick for the Bowerbird-presented CD release show for Technicolor Hell, a CD/zine compiling the leading lights of the Philly harsh electronic scene.
Daily News, June 11-15
This week, a feature piece on the "Congo Square" collaboration between Wynton Marsalis and Ghanaian drummer Yacub Addy, and a story on the Berks County and Clifford Brown Jazz Fests, featuring interviews with the Mahavishnu Project's Gregg Bendian and the Yellowjackets' Jimmy Haslip. Plus, a pick for the Chick Corea/Bela Fleck duo show at the Keswick.
Metro, June 11-15
Citypaper, June 14
This week: a review of Satoshi Kon's deliriously beautiful anime mindufck Paprika; a pick for '60s free jazz altoist Noah Howard, in a pair of what turned out to be rather brief and bizarre duo sets with Dave Burrell and Muhammad Ali; another for the final edition (after 21 years) of Jazz Vespers at Old Pine; and Soundadvice mentions for the Tuvan throat singers-meet-Arkestra and Elliot Levin show Alash Ensemble/Extra Special Terrestrial Guests and Philly soulquarian Bilal.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Daily News, June 1-8
Last Friday, a story on Philly trumpeter Rodney Mack, presenting the music of little-known 19th-century Philly composer Francis Johnson, with cousin Branford Marsalis guesting; and a pick for Rudresh Mahanthappa's quartet, presenting music from Codebook (Pi) at I-House.
And this week, just a pick for Kate McGarry at the Art Museum (link to come as soon as it reappears on the DN's site; it's in that day-after-publication limbo that seems to happen at Philly.com).
And this week, just a pick for Kate McGarry at the Art Museum (link to come as soon as it reappears on the DN's site; it's in that day-after-publication limbo that seems to happen at Philly.com).
Metro, June 4-8
June 4: My interview with director John Carney and stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of Irish indie-musical Once (pg. 16).
June 6: The sixth installment of the Rotunda's black rock series "Afropick", with Imani Uzuri, Purple Rhinestone Eagle and McRad (pg. 17).
June 8: What I could salvage from my somewhat incomprehensible interview (The Upsetter's typical ramblings compounded by the fact that his thick Jamaican accent was coming via cell phone from Switzerland, both of us being outside competing with traffic noise and such) with Lee "Scratch" Perry, hitting the World Cafe on Sunday (pg. 16) and a piece on the University City-showcasing 40th Street Summer Series (pg. 18).
June 6: The sixth installment of the Rotunda's black rock series "Afropick", with Imani Uzuri, Purple Rhinestone Eagle and McRad (pg. 17).
June 8: What I could salvage from my somewhat incomprehensible interview (The Upsetter's typical ramblings compounded by the fact that his thick Jamaican accent was coming via cell phone from Switzerland, both of us being outside competing with traffic noise and such) with Lee "Scratch" Perry, hitting the World Cafe on Sunday (pg. 16) and a piece on the University City-showcasing 40th Street Summer Series (pg. 18).
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Citypaper, June 7
A feature this week on intrepid Philly saxophonist Jack Wright and his importing of French improvisers from a heretofore largely unknown scene, at the Physick House on Wednesday; a review of Day Watch, the second in a trilogy of style-over-substance Russian sci-fi thrillers (I reviewed the first one in 2005); and another for Hostel Part II, a sequel that undercuts whatever arguments the first film's defenders (I couldn't really be numbered among them, though my review made allowances for some wit and style) offered in it's defense - this one is wholly ugly and unnecessary.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Daily News, May
I've already covered May 4, but the rest of the month had:
May 18: a story on David Torn's Prezens band playing at the Clef Club.
May 23: Had five summer jazz picks.
...and...
May 31: A feature on the WIlma's annual DanceBOOM! festival, with a sidebar on their "Men Dancing" program.
Plus the usual picks and listings, too trivial to be listed here.
May 18: a story on David Torn's Prezens band playing at the Clef Club.
May 23: Had five summer jazz picks.
...and...
May 31: A feature on the WIlma's annual DanceBOOM! festival, with a sidebar on their "Men Dancing" program.
Plus the usual picks and listings, too trivial to be listed here.
Metro, May
This month in Metro pieces:
May 8: PTC's play about Orson Welles' ill-fated attempt to direct Ionesco's "Rhinoceros", "Orson's Shadow" (pg. 26).
May 10: A piece on PhilaDanco's 36th season (pg. 16) and my metalicious interview with Black Sabbath, er, Heaven and Hell's Geezer Butler (pg. 17).
May 16: Cross-generational Swiss electronic musicians the Signal Quintet, playing two Bowerbird shows with their American counterparts and dancers (pg. 20).
May 18: Dancer/choreographer Jaamil Olawale Kosoko's Prince-inspired show "Wet. Purple. Love. Affair." at CEC (pg. 20) and Chamber Music Now!'s multi-media show "Four Ways to View a City" (pg. 22).
May 30: Walnut Street Theatre's two current productions, Carousel and Side By Side By Sondheim (pg. 14).
May 31: rainpan 43's revamping of their 2002 Fringe Fest hit machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines machines (pg. 17).
May 8: PTC's play about Orson Welles' ill-fated attempt to direct Ionesco's "Rhinoceros", "Orson's Shadow" (pg. 26).
May 10: A piece on PhilaDanco's 36th season (pg. 16) and my metalicious interview with Black Sabbath, er, Heaven and Hell's Geezer Butler (pg. 17).
May 16: Cross-generational Swiss electronic musicians the Signal Quintet, playing two Bowerbird shows with their American counterparts and dancers (pg. 20).
May 18: Dancer/choreographer Jaamil Olawale Kosoko's Prince-inspired show "Wet. Purple. Love. Affair." at CEC (pg. 20) and Chamber Music Now!'s multi-media show "Four Ways to View a City" (pg. 22).
May 30: Walnut Street Theatre's two current productions, Carousel and Side By Side By Sondheim (pg. 14).
May 31: rainpan 43's revamping of their 2002 Fringe Fest hit machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines machines (pg. 17).
Citypaper, May
So I've been more neglectful tha ever this month, so I'm just going to catch up with a month-long update for each publication. In addition to these, I have a review of the Rova Orkestrova "Electric Ascension" show at I-House in this month's Downbeat. They don't post it online, so I can't link. But trust me. It's there.
Now, as for CP in the month of May...
The May 10 issue merely had an Art Agenda pick for Dina Matos McGreevey's book signing. I was asked to do it - wouldn't have chosen this one myself - and couldn't force myself to do much more than skim the book. Just can't see why anyone should care.
May 17 was devoid of me altogether, but May 24 had a sidebar on I-House's Alexandro Jodorowsky double feature, a review of the third Pirates of the Caribbean, a Pick for Justin Berger's F! and another for Z'EV at I-House.
And finally, the May 31 issue had Soundadvice mentions for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at North Star, Uncle Woody Sullender and Kevin Davis' banjo/cello duo at the Pageant: Soloveev gallery, and the Billy Bang, Barry Altschul, Joe Fonda FAB Trio at I-House, which Bang no-showed, leading to one-off performance with solos, a duo, and a trio with Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose quartet shared the bill; a Pick for Dutch lute player Jozef van Wissem; and a short feature on the Electro-Music Festival at the Cheltenham Art Center.
Now, as for CP in the month of May...
The May 10 issue merely had an Art Agenda pick for Dina Matos McGreevey's book signing. I was asked to do it - wouldn't have chosen this one myself - and couldn't force myself to do much more than skim the book. Just can't see why anyone should care.
May 17 was devoid of me altogether, but May 24 had a sidebar on I-House's Alexandro Jodorowsky double feature, a review of the third Pirates of the Caribbean, a Pick for Justin Berger's F! and another for Z'EV at I-House.
And finally, the May 31 issue had Soundadvice mentions for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at North Star, Uncle Woody Sullender and Kevin Davis' banjo/cello duo at the Pageant: Soloveev gallery, and the Billy Bang, Barry Altschul, Joe Fonda FAB Trio at I-House, which Bang no-showed, leading to one-off performance with solos, a duo, and a trio with Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose quartet shared the bill; a Pick for Dutch lute player Jozef van Wissem; and a short feature on the Electro-Music Festival at the Cheltenham Art Center.
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