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"You sort of make it up as you go along, I guess," Chris Potter says, expressing the fact that improvisation has had as much to do with his long-term planning as it has with his own playing.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rashied Ali is Still Out Therenew
The interstellar jazz legend makes space for the next generation.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
01-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rashied Ali
Striking Oilnew
There Will Be Blood explodes with greed and corruption.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
01-08-2008 |
Reviews
Down the News Holenew
Here, we look at some of the biggest pieces of nonsensical hoopla from the year just ended, find out what stories got shoved to the back pages to make room, decide whether their burial was intentional conspiracy, and assess which was really the more important story.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
01-08-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
2007's Top 10 Jazz Albumsnew
From the Maria Schneider Orchestra to the David Murray Black Saint Quartet, we run down the best of the year.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
12-26-2007 |
Music
Try a Little Tendernessnew
Tony Malaby and Angelica Sanchez marry beauty and brawn in their intense improv sets.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
12-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'The Rape of Europa': Shot Through the Artnew
How the Nazis looted and destroyed Europe's cultural treasures.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Sex Mob Rulesnew
For the jazz rock vets, the whole world is Downtown.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sex Mob
Normal Love and Satanized Tamper in God's Domainnew
Both genre-splicing Philadelphia bands deftly combine modern classical, heavy metal and audacious experimental techniques.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Action-Packed 'Kingdom' Misfiresnew
Peter Berg's film feels too rote and near-Rambo in its simplistic portrait of a foreign policy disaster as easily remedied with a few well-placed brutal killings.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
A Van Halen Fan Comes to Termsnew
Despite my aversion to reunion concerts, nostalgia erodes the best of defenses, and I've laid down the cash to see Van Halen.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-02-2007 |
Music
'The Hunting Party' is On the Wrong Tracknew
The film has less luck finding the right tone than its heroes have locating their quarry.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
09-25-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Shepard, The Hunting Party
'Them' Does Its One Thing Wellnew
Hardly in need of recap, the film simply involves a young couple in a large house being terrorized by unseen aggressors over the course of a long, dark night.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Deep Fried Tapes Label Embraces a Bygone Mediumnew
Cassette tapes lack the hipster cachet of vinyl, the clean precision of the CD and the digital-age convenience of the mp3, but a Philly label and its experimental music scene embraces the medium in all of its flawed glory.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
08-28-2007 |
Music
Cop Killer and/or Political Prisoner Paints Behind Barsnew
Tom Manning has spent the last 22 years in federal prison, sentenced to 53 years for seditious conspiracy and 80 years for the killing of a New Jersey state trooper -- he also paints portraits.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
08-28-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
