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April 17, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
SXSW Music Review: The Comet Is Coming
London jazz-tronica trio sparks psychedelic soul vibrations
"...from the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Coven, electro-jazz groovers the Comet Is Coming simply shrugged off any..."
March 15, 2019 SXSW Post by Michael Toland
SXSW Film Review: A Tuba to Cuba
Preservation Jazz Hall Band doc is filled with life and joy
"...have been the film itself. Afterward, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band suddenly appeared onstage, and led a “second line”..."
March 15, 2018 Screens Post by Michael King
I Called Him Morgan
Doc on the late jazz great
"...Not reviewed at press time. Doc on jazz great Lee Morgan, whose wife shot him during a..."
April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Rock Dog
It's a dog … that rocks!
"...big city, a plot dynamic even older than The Jazz Singer, the film that introduced cinema to the talkies...."
Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Swingle All the Way!
Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland
"...to the Long Center direct from the classic NYC jazz club, where it's played for six seasons...."
Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires
La La Land
This bittersweet musical will make your heart soar
"...process, is one of these hopefuls, as is unemployed jazz pianist/purist Seb (Gosling), who wants to open his own..."
Dec. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
ACL Review: Gregory Porter
Harlem’s new Nat King Cole puts on a one-man jazz fest
"...his signature short-billed cap, the cuddly bear of a jazz vocalist treated fans to an array of new American..."
Oct. 3, 2016 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett
Belladonna of Sadness
This transgressive animated film from 1973 Japan has been recently restored. Blending gorgeous, watercolor-infused Japanese landscapes with Western influences like Art Nouveau and Expressionism, the film tells the sexually outré and hallucinogenic story of two lovers in a feudal village.
"...gets even better with Masahiko Satô’s amazing psych rock/free jazz score coupled with a number of original songs that..."
May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Nina on Netflix
Simone leads a chorus of music docs streaming online
"...field holler of hosannas for its documentation of folk, jazz, and civil rights activist Nina Simone. A review of..."
July 29, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
NMASS 2015 Resounds
“We’re not fucking around! This is serious!”
"...than another played 10 minutes later. From KORG-powered faux jazz to abstract films about squares it might have all..."
June 15, 2015 Music Post by Waylon Cunningham
Ballet 422
Doc captures young dancer Justin Peck choreographing his first ballet
"...the gorgeous, glorious 2010 performance film NY Export: Opus Jazz, co-directed and shot by Jody Lee Lipes, just as..."
March 20, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Whiplash
A student's desire to become a better drummer comes at the cost of becoming a supplicant to a monstrous teacher.
"...from its drum score, then Whiplash, about a young jazz drummer at a cutthroat-competitive conservatory, steals a whole quart...."
Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Video Premiere: Bee vs. Moth
Jazz-rock monkey business
"...Local jazz-rock misfits Bee vs. Moth offer a taste of their..."
Sept. 19, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
The Jitterbug Vipers: Shut Up and Play, Bitch!
Lounge jazzmasters celebrate ‘Phoebe’s Dream’
"...and I met up to talk about her lounge jazz band the Jitterbug Vipers’ new album, Phoebe’s Dream, which..."
June 4, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham
SXSW: Nik Turner Spreads His Cosmic Wings
Hawkwind co-founder to re-enact the 'Space Ritual'
"...all. He’s the hippie playing with punks, the free jazz saxist amongst metallers, as happy busking in London as..."
March 15, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
Like Someone in Love
The latest film from Iranian filmmaking legend Abbas Kiarostami is set in Japan and looks at some characters playing out approximations of love.
"...comes from Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of the eponymous American jazz standard, which plays twice in the film. That embedded..."
March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner
15 Minutes with Pat Metheny
Guitar radical still finds the good notes
"...It’s the first time in 30 years the renowned jazz guitarist is touring with a saxophonist, this time Chris..."
Oct. 3, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Quite the opposite of treacly holiday fare, this European import features one very bad Santa.
"...not in this crimson nightmare's repertoire, and all that jazz with the presents? Totally inaccurate. This holiday housebreaker is..."
Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Aural History
Hannibal Lokumbe and Jeff Lofton's Jazz Traditionalism
"...their trumpets – was great as well. The two jazz men and their wives even have dinner plans already...."
Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Other City Limits
Bowie High School throws their own festival; Grace London performs
"...own lineup of musically varied groups playing styles from jazz to electro...."
Oct. 26, 2009 Music Post by Livvy Bennett
Jazz Sides
It's Possible, Medical Cures for the Chromatic Commands of the Inner City Blue Canoe, Ghosts
"...City (Blue Canoe). Former member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and current assistant professor in jazz studies at..."
Sept. 19, 2008 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg
Kicking Television
Nels Cline sings low
"...possible. Aside from his numerous improvised acoustic and electric jazz projects, the “Avant Romantic” – as Rolling Stone dubbed..."
July 11, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell
Who Loves the Sun
Roy Ayers in the sunshine
"...“Roy Ayers, the old jazz musician.”..."
June 25, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
As far as we know, this Adam Sandler movie is the first Hollywood-made Jewish/Palestinian/immigrant comedy that also doubles as a surprisingly trenchant analysis of the Middle East's perpetual bloodbath.
"...(in an inspired comic riff on Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer – which precious few die-hard Sandler fans will..."
June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Rich Harney
Jazz Sides
"...swinging, soulful style has made him a most in-demand jazz pianist for more than two decades, playing with everyone..."
Feb. 15, 2008 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg
Robert Skiles
Jazz Sides
"...& the Fairlanes. He's also an accomplished and respected jazz and classical player who lends his talents to this..."
Feb. 15, 2008 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg
Eragon
Dear George Lucas … It's bad enough that you've cloaked your true identity behind that of the 15-year-old bestselling novelist Christopher Paolini, but did you have to remake Episode IV all over again? With friggin' dragons?!
"...Hedlund. Dear George Lucas: What gives with this Eragon jazz? I mean, gee whiz, did you seriously think that..."
Dec. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
A Good Woman
Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan is here set among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin' on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope.
"...Howard Himmelstein) set Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan) among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin' on the Italian coast, and the..."
Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
"...perplexing. Broken Flowers is as elliptical as the haunting jazz music by Mulatu Astatke that permeates the soundtrack. The..."
Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The White Horse
