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·· Taylor Haskins, Trumpet ·· Alex “Sasha” Sipiagin, Trumpet ·· Duane Eubanks, Trumpet ·· Chris Potter, Tenor Saxophone ·· Antonio Hart, Alto Saxophone ·· Mark Gross, Alto Saxophone ·· Gary Smulyan, Baritone ·· Robin Eubanks, Trombone ·· Jon Arns, Trombone ·· Douglas Purviance, Tromone ·· Steve … [Read more...]

The Elizabeth Wurtzel of Motherhood, and the latest barometer of the New Yorker's decline. … [Read more...]

Matos posted … [Read more...]

The Sick-Child Delayed Rebuttal to Dorfman's Rebuttal: Martha Stewart on trial is a media event, the same way communists "on trial" fifty years ago was a media event. Plenty of celebs got singled out fifty years ago who were no more traitors to the country than Stewart is an inside trader. … [Read more...]

If I weren't nursing my sick 3-year-old, I'd be all over this GREY ALBUM controversy. So let me toss up a few notes: Danger Mouse is an ingenious DJ, not quite an artist, but the record gives you a LOT to listen to, and a lot to think about. He should be celebrated, not persecuted. Because of "Grey … [Read more...]

David Denby, "Living in America," New Yorker (Jan. 12) Last fall, Denby, a film critic for the New Yorker, published "My Life As a Paulette," as in an acolyte of the late New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael. It was his exorcism of the spell the witch cast on him even in death: an account of how … [Read more...]

From the Daily Kos. … [Read more...]

BRAHMS Four Hand Piano Music 10 (Naxos 2003), String Quartets Op. 51 Nos. 1 & 2 Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn SCHUBERT Piano Works for Four Hands 3 (Naxos 2003), Fantasie in F minor, Three Heroic Marches, Variations on an Original Theme Jenö Jandó, Zsuzsa Kollár ELGAR Symphony No. 1 in A flat … [Read more...]

Tim: Michael Wolff has written a notably fatuous piece.  To equate Martha Stewart with the victims of McCarthyism; to make the case that the celebrity rich comprise an aggrieved class; to state, in other words, that the state's jackboot is crushing her without cause--this is rubbish, pure and … [Read more...]

"It is hard, of course, to feel all that sorry for the rich (nor was it probably so intuitive to feel sorry, in another time, for the communists), particularly the rich who yell at the help (which may be all of the rich). And yet, there is a principle here. We ought not to prosecute somebody just … [Read more...]

Pioneer DV-563A Befuddled at first to find that the optical connections that work for DVD surround don't work for either DVD-A or SACD -- instead, it wants ANALOG connections between player and receiver. Once that got set up, I played both DVD-A and SACD, which were both impressive, and then set up … [Read more...]

Dick Gordon did a Connection show yesterday on personal ads in the NYRB and the LRB. Those are certainly the two publications to do: everyone is always tittilated to learn (?) that "intellectuals" have active sex lives, even consider the literate mind something of a kick. The LRB by contrast has the … [Read more...]

We're not so worried about getting swallowed up by lists as we are about blind lists in a room full of deaf musicians. Still, the Voice Pazz Jop is out, and here's a bunch that tend to overlap with mine, meaning those I'll poach for stuff to check out [alphabetical, since we're trolling for blurbs, … [Read more...]

One more gripe (What flunkie decided Dave Mathews should play ACOUSTIC guitar on "I Saw Her Standing There"??? And Vince Gill's solo got buried!) before MOVING ON to my own FANTASY GRAMMY CATEGORIES: DVDsThe latest in pushing pre-recorded CDs is to stick a limited edition performance DVD in the … [Read more...]