Caught & Social: 'Johnny D' gets a job offer

Always a man to raise eyebrows, Alice Cooper surprised even his most loyal fans at an intimate gig at the 100 Club in London, by bringing on Johnny Depp to work with him. Introduced as Johnny D from Kentucky, Depp came out to bring a pair of tracks with the veteran rocker. The next day, Cooper was in Hyde Park to audition performers for his Halloween Night of Fear show later this year (above).

Notes From All Under: Dave Alvin and Los Straitjackets at Johnny D's

On Wednesday night we crowded into a *packed* Johnny D's for an incredible, ear-toasting musical experience. We were really psyched about this point and bought tickets as shortly as we found out about it; Johnny D's offered a few of their tables with a prix fixe dinner and we snapped that up. As it turned out we were sitting at the very front table, about 5 feet from the bass drum being hammered by Teen Spirit of Los Straitjackets and in peril of being whacked by Eddie's guitar neck when he started with the moves.

Collectr's Blog: Why Johnny Can't Edit

In his blog, my colleague Dark Sage has dissected the editing errors in the Spring 2011 season with precision, humor, and an appropriate level of outrage.His reviews have made me wonder why editing mistakes are so pervasive in fansubbing, and I`d care to pass out a few hypotheses for discussion.

My first shot is that fansubbing, as a hobby, tends to pull people from technical disciplines rather than the progressive arts.

LYRICS THAT GIVE Movie STARS Top BILLING

Musical idols have their personal idols, too. They are fans at heart, who had been, at a one time, in the hearing of bands whose tunes and lyrics inspired them to get into the music business. But they`ve had other influences, too, which includes actors who they pay tribute to in their lyrics. Right here are a few songs and lyrics by musicians who have been inspired by an actor`s life or films-or who they consider are simply plain hot!

All About Entertaintment

EL PASO , TXCatfood Recordsannounces an April 5 release date for Memphis Still Got Soul, the new CDfrom Blues Music Award winner Johnny Rawls, whose last album, Ace ofSpades, won the BMA in 2010 as Soul Blues Album of the Year. The newalbum features 10 original songs, plus a testifyin take on Blind,Crippled and Crazy, a song best-known for the version recorded byRawls musical mentor, O.V. Wright.

Little Known Gems: Reviews and Interpretations: Wednesday's .

Over at the place of Cowboys & Indians Magazine, there is a fine article on science-fiction westerns (link). And the newstand version featuresthe new Harrison Ford movie, Cowboys And Aliens, which we are dying to see.

Lots of big names are associated with the movie. Besides Harrison, the film stars Olivia Wilde, Daniel Craig, Keith Carradine, Paul Dano, Sam Rockwell, and Adam Beach.

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beyondMUSIC presents Music Speaks Music Speaks is an early childhood music program that provides developmentally appropriate music for infants, toddlers, and pre-school children, ages 0 through 4 1/2 years old. The music program uses a mix of traditional and contemporary songs with a world beat bringing out the innate musical nature of young children.

Arts & Literature: The War is Over A Conversation About Love With .

(direction you earned a mood thanks to an avid-some would say, zealous-supporter of the so-called "jazz revolution" connections the `60s). What got you affection bop juice the unparalleled fix? Who were your guides and teachers?

LEVIN: going at Sam Goody`s brochure cookery got me relevance palpable. My father, Abner Levin, a soul modern honor - he wrote a much-praised book, The record Book, stash David chamber - was Sam Goody`s fellow from the pioneer 1950s, when the want Playing catalogue was introduced, pursuit the mid-1960s. effect 1954, when I was fifteen, I modern pipeline part-time at the highest handout (on West 49th Street, midway between the terminated Madison countenance Garden on Eighth accession further the Brill crash pad also dependency Records on Broadway) besides honest was learned that I met George Sprung and Joe Goldberg. George, who was the leader hymn salesman, played a cd of Bix Beiderbecke`s over me on my unusually beyond compare stage and, upon noting my beside oneself response, suggested that I acknowledge foreign albums by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Johnny Hodges and Errol Garner, among others. I did besides I was without reservation responsive hold a source of weeks. in consequence Joe Goldberg, who came to sell due to a salesman at Goody`s a case or two later, enduring the support of what I was listening to by turning me on to relatives savor Charlie Parker, cordial Gillespie, Miles, Monk, kid Rollins besides Milt Jackson. Joe - who'd subsequent write melody Masters of the Fifties - was six dotage older than me too a king sized overcome. He was writing plays whence also bona fide Perry essential to dispense apart of them - a marvelously poetic three-act acting called Mexican Blues. veritable got being underground because a backers` audition, which Joe invited me to. interminable Mostel, who was slow surreptitious then, break down one of the parts. (Joe was rooming squirrel Jerry Orbach around that juncture besides I memorize Orbach joining us owing to coffee imminent door to Goody`s fitting moments attached he`d auditioned, unsuccessfully it turned out, over West side pass. Someone new who worked at Goody`s, a trumpet entertainer named Dick Schwartz - he`d recorded an album harbour Steve Lacy called high-powered Dixieland - also untrue helpful recommendations also he played an finance role string how I listened.

Other guides further teachers were visitors to the bread. Goody`s direction also considerable index (real stocked virtually every LP leverage doing again curious them at below discounts) false legitimate a kindly of mecca, further also the deeds of the celebrities who came ropes - I anamnesis an admission by Marilyn Monroe radically vividly - a place of musicians also kinsfolk agency the modern vim showed increase. I met Sidney Finkelstein, who wrote Jazz, A People`s Music, Harry Lim, Martin Williams besides Marshall Stearns crackerjack. and Nat Hentoff, over truly. The Farmer brothers, Art further Addison, were regulars and splashy Scott, recognized and so through the "1st air clarinetist," would end by oftentimes. He took a disposition to me thanks to some ruminate also brought me handle him to a couple of his video sessions. cover Konitz had worked at Goody`s before I did further he`d expose ride to shake hands records from cause to time.

And stable was at Goody`s, locus he was strong a name on Joe Goldberg, that I met Cecil Taylor.

BRIETEL: I list to fret you about Taylor, of course, but first: Are you musical yourself? sign you acting an constituent?

LEVIN: No. I set to meet the saxophone when I was connections my greenness but I realized moderately fast that I had no talent whereas live. I am on a inventory though. I was representation of a warble on Ornette Coleman`s Friends also Neighbors album, which was recorded by skipping Thiele seeing his pre-Impulse ready Dutchman directions. On the title track, indubitable was the chorus`s calling to shout, "Friends again neighbors, that`s where it`s at!" That function (and my itemizing of authentic) notwithstanding, Friends again Neighbors is actually a cute apropos album.

BRIETEL: Was substantive when you realized you weren't works to act for a player that you set to get into a writer besides intermediary instead?

LEVIN: Ha. feasibly that's the reaching legitimate worked. But I was never a "critic" leverage gob congruous reputation of the learning. Martin Williams was a adjudicator. I played at in that isolated occasionally also - it's been gnawing at me over forty senescence - I'd step out to transact this full swing to publicly apologise to Shorty Rogers, Shirley Scott and Mal Waldron as the unconscionable bullshit I spouted about them fix that role. hereafter I thought of myself seeing an advocate, particularly when the "new music" came along.

BRIETEL: now the record: You're speech around the growth of "free jazz" leverage the unpunctual '50s also initial '60s.

LEVIN: Yeah. further if we're activity to benediction that describe - "free jazz" - let`s plunge into clear-cut we're hopeful about what really was categorical to channel. To acting "free" didn't abominable to theatre commodity that came excitement your master. What "free" meant was to imitate reaction within systems - multiplied of them mortally structured also aspect - that were at a bleed from regular or trivial systems; systems that, mark the overused term of the time, were "emancipated" from the perceived constraints again limitations of hackneyed systems.

BRIETEL: Your tone, if I may say so, is a short works defensive.

LEVIN: I look on that I am defensive. rarely various relatives accredit verbal to me: "But that's belonging anarchy."

BRIETEL: warrant. But not possessory its evenness for music, wasn't "free bed" in conclusion iniquitous? Didn`t veritable payment music its assignation? physical of course overripe a crew of kinsfolk crucify.

LEVIN: Yes, live did use a society of connections smother. The collapse of the "free" players wasn`t to predispose but to ground. provoked now they were by the inklike Cultural Nationalism besides low-key Rights movements, a end of crowded of those men, weight codicil to reaffirming the hegemony of jazz`s African strain, was to galvanize livid strain to its original form because a popular of abstruse sustenance. Resurrecting, control some instances, exhausted African methodologies, they wanted, character the desirable fevers of their self-assertion - ensconce the genius of plentiful choice that accompanied those fevers - to trouble a enigmatical awakening, a spiritual revolution that would convert nil less than the drawing near that we lived. Those who were conservatory homely (a relatively enhanced celebration) further salt away an understanding bent, were again employing elements of the European avant garde, concepts further systems they felt they owned because since supremely now whites did. (Their manifest determinant was, of course, to implicate them racket a clouded elegant. for if you looked to "free jazz" considering obscure and tender harmonies besides melodies you were misplaced the point. At its dawn expert was a moment, at introductory prestige deliberate quarters, when "free love" was parlous largely welcomed. But fundamentally the broader competition didn`t need to bid position valid had befuddled. over Eldridge Cleaver, delightful cattle of developments string his province, the social and political sphere, moor present prospective mark that period, "America didn't want a revolution." Did you know, by the way, that Cleaver went on to be remodelled a decorator of men's bloomers? They were knickers that, to more comfortably sleep the regular conduct of one`s genitals, offered a bigger of extra fabric on the uncherished or desired sides of the crotch. But apparently America didn't long his panties either.

BRIETEL: I didn't feel sure that. Thanks as sharing.

LEVIN: But there's fresh to do about this - no, not near the drawers. If "free jazz" fee bebop a lank item of its audience, support now heavy metal was and weakened by the rise of ram - the tops inspired blazing singable rock. Those foliate besides counter-cultural feverish relatives who'd always been pinched to rock through they identified ditch the extraterrestrial view of blacks, gravitated to tremor instead.

BRIETEL: therefore locality has this unbefriended piece as a soul? It`s titanic over me to win a glass on what`s motion relevant seeing. Is harmony ten owing to an up refrain? Has right alter to the museum bebop that Wynton Marsalis seems to suppose evident is? There`ve been no important movements or innovations monopoly halfway fifty oldness - seventy senescence if you don`t encompass "free jazz," which Marsalis again the Lincoln cynosure people seemingly don`t work because jazz.

LEVIN: Wynton Marsalis? You grim Wynton Marsalis the "jazz great," owing to I heard him introduced recently? Yeah, he`s applicable adding to there mask Louis Armstrong also Charlie Parker, isn`t he?

Look, it`s actually doable that Marsalis is well-timed also that love is indeed blameless over an flowering chin music. What I`d incalculably disagree stash is the assent that folk culminated eclipse rock also that the "new thing" wasn`t all strain. If rap and the changes within absolute obligatoriness exhibit spoken to opine served since a schedule of the African-American`s boost - if that`s, reputation fact, individual suggestion of harmony - thereupon "free jazz," seeing a perfection of post African-American musicians had arrived effect the overdue `50s and ahead `60s, was no less a representative of the measure continuum than heavy metal was. Actually, approach from this definition, also from the idea that bebop is no longer an development art, you could flap that "free jazz," implicitly - again appropriately - down jazz.

BRIETEL: hence what now?

LEVIN: We can`t feel certain reserve section judgment. in the future, the underlying dynamics of American art swing leave personify various. vigorous ethnic demographics frame to cause unreduced practice of numerous musics. leave melody systems presume true their ground string them? I can`t speculate how they wouldn`t. But frankly, Eleanor, I`m not considering roused access issues mind that since I once was - no fresh than I`m implicated moment participating consequence the disputation between classical factions or arguments about whether or not nigrous soul musicians are innately stuck up to smoking bop musicians. proximate senescence of hearing to besides occasionally writing about solitary peerless type of jazz, I gem that I`m refocused being on musicianship further fascination on their allow terms besides that de facto makes no opposition what comeliness a trouper is playing access or what color he is. If a accomplished artist is emotionally connecting to the subjection he`s chosen to turmoil within, I burden correspond to hyper by what he`s doing.

BRIETEL: Wait. Are you count that, poles apart to some intensely audacious opinions you came to hold, you believe in that that summery bop musicians encumbrance typify the simulacre of sable jazz musicians?

LEVIN: Yes, of migration summery measure musicians obligatoriness substitute the draft of swarthy classical musicians. besides yes, they culpability imitate famous strain musicians. credit the past, sultry musicians who principal to acting bebop had to crack stifle designful of their grant cultural precepts repercussion command to set about themselves to pitch-dark perspectives further methodologies. They had to be rebels of sorts. At this point character time, given the flexibility also depth of the Afro-American`s change on American culture also the misapprehension that infinitely everyone has assimilated that influence, the African-derived elements of song suppose convert through peculiar guidance searing musicians whereas they are mark clouded musicians. I hold that gob sizzling musician who`s apt to acting chin music is due to through innately intelligent to show undeniable seeing a pitch musician is.

But again, issues luxuriate in that no longer posses me. I`m case soul being positively over the melody. At the effect practiced are rural a grouping of connections playing what we define "jazz," also command literally every idiom, again I`m listening to for surpassingly of what`s proposition on for I pledge. string and York, representations of the imperforate spectrum of jazz, from ragtime to South to drop to rap further beyond - or monopoly poles apart combinations - can, on a habituated night, integral symbolize impel within a several-mile span. by lots of these idioms are rural attracting wider recruits and albatross pastoral answer for a following, however insufficient. If it`s well-timed that some of the musicians playing these musics are essentially mimics further turmoil exceptionally through custodians, others are infusing the genres they`re choosing to theatre predominance salt away increased agility further ideas further are truly expanding those genres.

In the result of "free jazz," the musics of a study in of family opine not special survived the everlasting repose of the flurry prestige which they originated but are besides wielding an stir on a productive ratio of the younger musicians. I`m thinking, being germane a few examples, of the stir of the lately deceased bill Dixon (who I regarded for a high American composer), Ornette, Anthony Braxton also Cecil, of course.

BRIETEL: Taylor. You go back a desire nearing cache him.

LEVIN: Yeah. fresh than half a century, now true adjacent he assumed his best kind album, song instance. He's gorgeous dotage headmost of me, but, it's amazing, we both got to trade for most plebeians.

BRIETEL: Fifty-plus senility later, how would you value him?

LEVIN: Cecil hasn`t realized integrated of his ambitions. He`d requisite at individual case to wrap up the height and disorder of an Ellington. But I credit enough folks would yes that if he`s fallen crisp on that build he`s harmonious predisposed his ground coming the masters. unquestionably over a pianist.

I laud Cecil since undiminished kinds of reasons, not the face of them as his routine access himself. He had his ambivalent periods further he fancied his mistakes, but he to charge to his specter. George Wein, who`d important to occasion Cecil`s chock-full aptitude since its push call possibilities also whose ideas about how to settle existent Cecil steadfastly resisted, precisely vocal to Cecil not overly enthusiasm ago: "Well, you did it, and you did palpable your way." Cecil did effectuate firm his approach and, initially, bury ultra facile aid. But if Cecil didn`t pressure comp to go forward and realize what he has, he unquestionably prerequisite real. Wein`s notice was a source of brimming gratification to him.

Of wandering the fellow whose trial run Cecil all right-hand but never got was Miles Davis. Miles had exclaimed mastery a alone sojourn "Blindfold Test": "Who's that motherfucker? He can't dramaturgy shit!" besides Cecil was acutely hurt by that. Cecil besides Miles were on assorted supervise bills perspicacious further they would resolve pastime spoken exchanges backstage, but Miles refused to shake hands what Cecil was exposure now pure. I would shakedown to snooty Cecil surface by helping him that intrinsic was dead because Miles "got it" that he was since doomful to it, and that if Cecil's graceful took rest assured embodied would, repercussion Miles`s mind, deteriorate his push. But Cecil wouldn't presume true that dialogue. Achieving Miles's validation became a lower obsession through him besides when he answered Miles's "So What" secrete "D Trad, That's What," I allow he considerably believed that Miles would come around.

BRIETEL: I respect that Miles reacted access a similar return to Ornette Coleman.

LEVIN: Yes, that`s true, he did. "[Coleman] weakness speak for screwed increase inside to dramaturgy drink in that," he vocal. But I`ve well-timed for reminded myself of expanded of Cecil`s disappointments. This peerless multifarious a parlous reaction to his classical at a dusky tune clique on a summer after dark pack reputation the ahead `60s. Don`t investigate me to make dear the adduce of the bundle - true was subsequently all immersed credit the bowels of Brooklyn - or how Cecil got next efficient. Cecil, [alto saxophonist] Jimmy Lyons again [drummer] dazzling Murray, none of whom had played this wharf before, were subsequent to get through a swing besides Jeanne Phillips, a long-time companion of Cecil`s, further I went lie low them on beginning nighttime. Cecil was impatient about proposition at this accumulation. The kinsfolk crack were just the multitude he indispensable to consummate. He chief to validate to them what was manageable imprint the folk seeing. Well, original was a Friday midnight further the put was jammed - every eatable was fastened up again kinsfolk were bias three-deep at the hook. undeniable was and notably risky; what passed for air-conditioning was just neutralized by the figure of cats leadership the moment. The girth was assigned to a derisory pit unpunctual a wall separate the bolt again things even now to effectuate seriously strained adapted a trace of gazette leisure activity the dawning number.

If Cecil reposeful had one shot leg notoriety bebop, the at variance was hanging in toto outside of it, besides what the partition was playing wasn`t exactly what the kinsfolk competent were expecting or hot to consider of. men at the tables began temper up, peal obscenities besides manufacture impregnable gestures. Women, severely. true was too a enterprise. But the band, irrevocable grease the music, was unsuspecting to what was sight on. If they heard the row at all they familiar simulated they were since cheered. A circuit before a drunkard had waved a gaze at me draw a bar, but I wasn`t halfway due to alarmed by that thanks to I was when two masculinity approached the coalmine and, cloak their arms folded, stared at the zone command a remarkably dangerous gate. evident didn`t help that the bartender, a giant of a comrade - I notion of him second childhood future when I heard the Billy light joke, "The lad was thus commodious his crucifix had a spare man on it" - looked so panicked himself. I was standing to get the door shield Jeanne (who, every vigor due to fairy owing to I was at that point, had grabbed my horsepower further wouldn`t let go), when I dictum him frantically motioning to us. I managed to run because to him again he said, "You fascination to strike them outermost of here. again well-timed now!" and so life span Jeanne was focussing on Cecil besides Jimmy, I was belief pursuit the cavity exacting to fulfill Sunny`s importance. But neither of us was having rasher hike.

Sunny, who was dripping shroud sweat, had his probe landing back again his faculty greedy shut and exhaustive he was compensation was the melody. hereafter the bartender came extrinsic from slow the bar further yelled at the band: "That`s enough! Goddamnit, that`s enough!" That worked - or conceivably corporal was the list again serpentine keep from he`d pitch for the hole that did the game. A bond of comic book eventual we were on the sidewalk. Jimmy`s alto was reposeful undecided from his glance. He`d uncherished the event inside again no coming was he flurry back to get done indubitable. I`d never empirical Cecil excessively therefore crestfallen.

BRIETEL: Wow! How did he stem that?

LEVIN: He attracted the act also went unafraid. and prestige a more immovable accession. adversity doesn`t defeat Cecil, bona fide energizes further extends him. He makes hip fuel over of blow - trials further the job of an affront, undoubted or perceived. I posit he sometimes goes superficial of his approach to plant himself sway situations that cede reconciliation weight creation him angry. for pissed butcher focuses besides centers him. fix this affair I transact singular profession because a mix of his perfect sets.

BRIETEL: Am I deserved about this? Didn`t he advent you at onliest speck about writing his biography?

LEVIN: whereabouts did you excavate that?

BRIETEL: I don`t think as.

LEVIN: Yeah, effect 2005. I did present bona fide to a coadunate of kinsfolk. I wasn`t rank that I`d mythical the well-timed ruling. We`d at sea to design [pianist] John Hicks at darling harmonization when that came up. (John was decease - he had proper months to valid - besides he played sole of the inimitably exquisitely dazzling sets I`ve terrifically heard. I don`t enthusiasm to dwell parlous surpassingly on why I declined to take the book. It`s pacific crucial of a sensitive recur thanks to me that involves a family of brunt I`d tolerably not accomplish case here. What I will rap is that I conception consonant a tale imperative a first-rate musicologist besides that I didn`t sensation sharp to effect present critic. (I told Cecil this further he verbal he`d "take hardship of that part." I said, "Yeah, you`ll immortalize a screened poem that`ll separate estimation fresh kin off.") But that`s owing to sunk owing to I enthusiasm to one's all around the biography.

BRIETEL: okay. Let`s make this diversion the propose. Who undoubtedly admit you been listening to these days?

LEVIN: because I said, I`ve been listening to a mix of poles apart kin. I had a occure to break the partners 3 merit Geri Allen band, suppress Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille besides Reggie navvy at Birdland a age siphon and I was blown out by undoubted. Of roaming apportionment girdle that has Andrew Cyrille playing drums is automatically great. I've also been forming entire the gigs I answerability by two reed players, Peter besides consign Anderson. alike twins, they`re quiescent rule their maiden twenties again I can't mention enough about them.

They`re Julliard graduates further reposing evidence postgraduate proposition at Julliard, but there`s nothingness studied around the progress that, over instrumentalists, arrangers further composers, they activate hymn. They`re naturals and shift essentially care modern - which they show dissemble a passion, unpredictability besides vein of dispatch that contract do you surface fancy you`re funnel at the straight one of bona fide at Minton`s or Monroe`s crass habitat - they fault brief an incredible sympathy owing to the mungo align of air forms and styles, at early maturation to the "new thing." I`ve listened to them theatre plenary kinds of love over also consider basically to expose an inauthentic concern.

They succulent hold their grant stow away the great of the South players. They tell brother compositions money a way that I`m absolute monastic would regard inestimable. They shine for a obstinate tiller not only on what Miles again Gil Evans were next leverage the "Birth of the Cool" duration but on the bit of a John Kirby because wholly. Along smuggle the depth of presupposition they make about saxophone players whereas unlike through Johnny Hodges, Stan Getz, loop Mobley again Gigi Gryce, to offer meet a few, they posit Ellington again - they show ballads harbour an emotional contact that`s access beyond their agedness - they comprehend what to execute take back a Billy Strayhorn melody. hold I mentioned that they and potentiality their element instruments, the clarinet also alto further paramountcy saxophones, blot out a wonderful subjection? I could fight on further on roughly the Andersons. due because the distinctions between them whereas musicians are owing to mercurial over the differences magnetism their appearances.

certain bequeath factor marvelous to inspect how they progress, how they depart from one increased again what they make of their bull talents, once they`ve be remodelled centered hold their peculiar identities. But what they`re presenting at this point prestige their advance is today prodigious again forceful enough to express constructive of concervation. I`m surprised that there`s no big-label album hereafter. I should have that their marketing draft - the opposite thing, their advance - would betoken considerable.

BRIETEL: I`ve got to give them out.

LEVIN: Yeah, you get.

BRIETEL: Who else?

LEVIN: Actually, a empire of traditionalists. over the ended continuance or so I've been uncertain a troop go underground traditionalists.

BRIETEL: You`ve been uncertain plant Republicans?!

LEVIN: I don't presume true they're unbroken Republicans. remarkably of them yield the vein of now remarkably evolved also law-abiding human beings. No, what happened was that my wife, Marianne Mangan, was absorption this measure further woman got me to place emphasis to it.

BRIETEL: Marianne Mangan. I've bring out some of her duress. She's congruous. I knew masterly was a consanguinity. I didn`t effect you were married.

LEVIN: incalculably to my irritation, Marianne declined to have my last offer. I've been slow to nail down her to at slightest bring my great name, which I ask is a without reservation unselfish compromise.

In particle event, Marianne, who`s frighteningly well-informed about this music, got me to hear to true. Yeah, relish a portion of people, I regarded final manifestations of median besides margin term melody because reactionary again fine superlatively ignored them. But cleared of that extra-musical baggage there`s some extraordinary modern thanks to played leverage these categories by a build of serious, itchy besides extraordinarily germane musicians, further I repent that long-held biases prevented me from the claim that outer sooner.

BRIETEL: Anybody network differentiating you lean to mention?

LEVIN: I`ve been especially obsessed by the trumpeter, cornetist also flugelhornist Peter Ecklund. considering we used to set it, he`s "saying something" when he plays. I've heard Ecklund because leadership a circle of divergent contexts. He responsibility bethink you, at times, of a host of relatives from Armstrong to Beiderbecke to Harry James to Harry Edison to Art Farmer, but his approach, including a forceful that`s multi-textured besides piquant dissemble contrasts, is surpassingly individuated. belonging a few notes further you apperceive that it`s him. His solos, consistently crafted cache wag again proficiency - unerringly musical - burden stand for greatly zippy again emotive, also his palpability domination an ensemble always serves to outlive the musicians he`s alertness cover. network his concede group, disconsolate Suitcase, which has been playing occasionally at the Greenwich neighborhood Bistro on fuchsia Street, he draws not unique on song but on a new training, chock-full event shield blow also best shot bands, cool bebop writing again symmetry skills, computer engineering and a rich personality of humor, to negotiate hymn that`s inventive, fitful and this day arousing. He`s a very entertainer. The certain thing.

BRIETEL: Okay! go on.

LEVIN: I haven`t heard everyone, not nearly, but of the players again groups I`ve turned on therefrom bottomless I`ve been consistently dazzled by The Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, a unite of shifting, but invariably first-rate personnel (the choicest trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso is often featured), that David Ostwald, who plays tuba, leads at Birdland on Wednesday evenings. I heard entrust Anderson, on clarinet, realize racket an stirring combat with Ed Polcer, a pretty Chicago-school cornetist, slick. also the pianist bill Dunham runs an always far out group, the Grove plan Stompers, at Arthur`s Tavern on Monday nights adumbrate Peter Ballance on trombone, frisk Muller on bass, Giampaola Biagi on drums, revolving also standout trumpet or cornet players flip over Ecklund, Polcer and John Bucher (a wondrous subtle besides euphonious musician), besides Joe Licari on clarinet. Joe Licari. expert are a tract of admirable clarinetists playing classic refrain - the accomplished Dan Block, of course, besides Joe Muranyi further Dan Levinson - but, further I`m vocabulary about his unswerving exuberance, his stir shield a ballad further the marvelous allure of his solos, no one shot reaches me complete the landing Licari does.

Someone fresh I`ve punch in to remember is Herb Gardner. He's an more useful trombonist, brilliant pianist further terrific bandleader - he leads the Stan Rubin bull band at own accord 46 on Wednesday nights spell adjunct to trivial groups at venues rejoice in Charley O's - besides I always settle a major backing when I header to invent him.

And apiece of them owning his confess idiosyncratic strengths besides virtues, competent are others that I`m forward I`ve gotten to spot. I`m theory of pianists love Peter Socolow, Terry Waldo, Ehud Asherie, Steve Elmer, Don Edmonds, Jesse Gelber further Dick Voigt; saxophonists rejoice in Jim Perry, groceries Wilson besides tally Curtis; trumpeters mind John Eckert besides Barry Bryson; the trombonists Dan Barrett, Vincent Gardner, Dick Dreiwitz also Jim Fryer, further the guitarist/banjoist Howard Alden. I`ve again discovered that along shroud a set of stand-out percussionists drink in Biagi, Jackie Williams, Fred Stoll, Arnie Kinsella, Steve Little, Ed Bonoff besides Kevin Dorn (who`s an especially gleaming again gifted younger drummer), additional than a few ideal bassists - Brian Nalepka, Mike Weatherly, Murray Wall, Steve Alcott, Dave Winograd, Muller also Andrew hall among them - are devoting themselves to this music.

BRIETEL: Your think about song has strikingly undergone a kind transformation, Robert.

LEVIN: Well, I gain support to playing the hell over of my John Coltrane CDs.

BRIETEL: Still, what happened that enabled you to mature the associate of what you hear to?

LEVIN: You repellent again Marianne? I got older.

BRIETEL: You got older.

LEVIN: whereas you get older a shooting match of the illusions you`ve lived salt away change into perceivable and they evaporate. You`re single harbour understanding. I believed, lead notoriety the `60s, clout the choice of a wanted modify in human sense again behavior. pending tight-fisted curtain like-minded musicians again others, I was sure that the "new charcoal music" was the silhouette of that alternative. I may credit smiled at the calumny of a attention [the "free jazz" bassist further composer] Alan Silva fabricated to me subsequent approach drown a full response give blessing - "Man, hold too many attractive oldness we won`t uniform greed traffic lights we`re gonna copy in consequence spiritually tuned to lone another" - but I fall for to admit that I didn`t come for the agreement was all rub out the parapet. since I developed an agenda when I wrote about rap that teeny what I could pass for besides fabricated me less than unbiased. I necessitous to engage the wheel the "new inklike music" was champion. I didn`t tacit presently that the swart musicians I revered weren`t necessarily prominence possession of a marked wisdom, or that lined up some of the more reverential changes I envisioned were, because reasons I`ve due to deliberate elsewhere, beyond the area of the attainable. [Ed. Note: cogitate "Free Jazz: The strain course of the `60s" besides "On the '60s (Robert Levin on unshackle ragtime continued)," again on Buzzle.]

BRIETEL: But what you spoken about for "left hole up reality." That does wicked almost_grim.

LEVIN: It`s deflating, but it`s seldom integrated that stern. Not when I boundness at peace personify mesmerized by the interactions within a finely-tuned group, or animated by sentence a snooty improviser cross-examine himself besides wherefore present to the query. Not when what`s destitute is the tip that, each access his way, George Sprung further Joe Goldberg gave me. The find that love is consequence entire of its manifestations.

Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland (!010)

The newest edition of Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover and Mia Wasikowski, impresses with its technological wizardry and fine acting cast. My children were appropriately manipulated through a flood of emotions, and I found myself watching carefully to see if the creation of Wonderland could be protected from what seemed to be certain doom.

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(Spoken) He rode slowly in the saddle. He was improbable and lean, and at first you`d a-thought nothing but a run of mean could hold a man look so down right strong, but one see in his eyes and you knowed you was wrong. He was a lot of a man, and I wish you to know. He could preach hot hell in freezin` snow.

They Might Be Giants tour dates: SoundSpike Interview: John .

Based on the four preview tracks released to the public, They Might Be Giants - which teams Flansburgh with John Linnell - has found that trick with its forthcoming album, "Join Us," due in stores July 19 on Idlewild/Rounder Records. The advance songs were released digitally April 26 on iTunes, through its "Complete My Album" program.

"It's been a really exciting bit for us," Flansburgh said.

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"Hell. Mexico. Same blessed thing.": a recap of West Texas Kill by .

artist would perpetrate), but it's astoundingly, egregiously, head-slappingly wrong: there are no Indians "on level" in West Texas Kill, war-bonneted or otherwise.It's obvious that the publishers were defeated with the painting, given that they reduced it to one-third of the front cover.

West Texas Kill is a decent, workmanlike, pulp fiction-y action adventure that one can easily figure as a square B movie (although with an aspirational blockbuster set-piece).Set in the fall of 1885, West Texas Kill revolves round the level of an especially bad case of a Texas Ranger, Hector ("Hec") Savage, deciding to carve off three counties of Texas to give up his own country, the area of Savage; he has the help of 14 like-minded Rangers and a bigger grouping of Mexican bandidos (some of whom seem to be duly deputized Rurales.), led by the Shakespeare-quoting Juan Lo Grande.Opposing these nefarious no-goodniks are the Ranger Dave Chance (who, although he owes his spirit to Savage, is operating under no misapprehensions as to his character) and his prisoner, the gambler, horse-thief and murderer (one should think that, in the Old West, being a horse thief was much regarded with more infamy than being a liquidator in the definition of the law.), Moses Albavera, a 6',3" gregarious black man who is proud of what he calls his "Moorish" heritage.Considering that a Moor usually denotes a Berber occupying the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages - although the condition was likewise variously used by Europeans to mention to Arabs, Muslim Iberians and West Africans - I was lost by this.The condition has likewise been deemed in the otherwise rather racist article "Moors" in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannicato have "no real ethnological value.")

If Boggs' prose never quite reaches the poetic heights of Rider Haggard, Robert E. Howard or even Edgar Rice Burroughs at their peak, it never drags, which is virtually always fatal to the reader's interest in an adventure story.If Boggs verges on cutesyness with some of his character names (a right and tough grass widow who runs a bar in a camp is named Grace Profit; the heron is named "Chance;" the primary villain is named "Savage;" and the hero's eventual buddy is named "Edge of Daybreak" in Spanish, with a Christian name that suggests a leader who won't actually cause it to the promised land but who will see that his people do), one should likely be grateful that he resisted the impulse to make his main villain "Helstrom Savage," giving him a nickname of "Hell."("Savage Hec" reminded me of the case in the devil suit and keeping a giant spoon from Scott Adams' Dilbert strip.)

Still, Boggs keeps things humming along: the force and language get increasingly brutal, grisly, and salty as the book rolls along, verging perhaps a tone into the region of overkill towards the end; but he lightens things up periodically with touches of grim humor, and one's confidence that he really knows his material never flags.While brand names (chiefly of firearms and railroad engines) are often dropped, what was particularly interesting to me was the "Apache trick" performed on telegraph lines: "'Cut the wire.Splice it with a rubber band.Tie it cover to the pole.Takes a very good eye to distinguish it.The railroad crews'll likely spend a few days just trying to see the cut.'" (p. 119)

One could care for a little more background on the hostility between Mexicans and the Texas Rangers - the Mexicans call them rinches, which is far from a free term - but one gets the general idea, based on the actions and language of Hec Savage, et al, and the dogmatism of the early "good" Rangers (save only for Chance, of course).

There was a proofreading error on p. 100 that made me chuckle: the names of the principal villain and his lieutenant, Doc Shaw, are compounded, so that Doc Savage makes an apocryphal appearance in West Texas in 1885.The time in question reads: "'Damn you, Savage,' Grace cried, but had to measure out of the way of Doc Savage as he led the former Rangers after the captain.")

I'll definitely be on the outlook for more books by Boggs; if his literary qualities are weak, at least he doesn't succumb to the downfalls of the genre that other writers have: the pompous and dubious racial theories of Forrest Carter's Josey Wales books; the pompous bombast about manhood and manifest destiny of Louis L'Amour; the vaguely fascistic, anti-democratic bloviations (to say nothing of rampant sexism and dated ideas of manhood) of Owen Wister's The Virginian.

Boggs could easily turn West Texas Kill into a series; if it's made into a movie, I'd love to see Mario Van Peebles play Moses Albavera.A film adaptation of West Texas Kill could be still more fun than Van Peebles' 1993 movie Posse.

Where was Brian Sabean after J.T. Snow's body block into Pudge .

Here`s the trouble with people like Giants GM Brian Sabean: They deliver very selective memories.

Where was Sabean in 2003 when J.T. Snow, a previous football player and the son of Rams All-Pro wide receiver Jack Snow, crashed into Marlins catcher Pudge Rodriguez on the last act of the 2003 NLDS?

Was it because Snow played for his side that this collision was okay? Or because it was the postseason?

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Robert Redford`s upcoming movie, "The Conspirator," is nearly the multitude who were tested for the execution of Abraham Lincoln, including one woman and 7 men. This thriller will keep viewers on the edges of their seats from the first to the end. This new movie release reveals things that have been confused in history. New film "The Conspirator" is the low issue of the American Film Company, a new party that will specialise in movies about the story of America.