According to the New York reviews, tenor saxophonist Georgie Auld–whose name’s as guaranteed to ring bells with your parents as it is to leave you in the dark–still sounds fine. There were certainly no complaints a decade ago, when he supplied the music behind Robert De Niro’s fingers in New York, New York; before that, […]
Author Archives: Neil Tesser
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Hal Russell NRG Ensemble
Yeah, just when you thought it was safe to go out to a jazz concert–he’s back. Hal Russell, whose NRG Ensemble often seems to be answering the musical question “What if they played jazz on the Tardis?” has taken over Thursdays at Chicago Filmmakers; the venue is important, since Russell’s big projects of late have […]
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Ernst Reijseger With Gunga Purves
OK, OK, so at first the idea of a cello-bass duo performing “free jazz and Afro-Scottish folk music” — on a visit here from Holland, no less — sounds a bit daunting. But keep in mind that: cellist Ernst Reijseger, one of Europe’s more engaging young improvisers, maintains a sense of wit as he goes […]
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Stone Survivor/Wingo Star/Our Man in NY
Stone Survivor “I remember, when I got hired at Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner called me into his office, and he was bein’ such a jerk, tryin’ to intimidate me. But you know, things go best when you have a real kamikaze attitude about stuff. I said, you know me, you know my background. And I […]
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RupertWatch: Writer Gets Affront-Page Bye-Line/Return of SiskelWatch/No Opener/Ink
RupertWatch: Writer Gets Affront-Page Bye-Line At the moment, we are not too concerned about what you may or may not think of the Chicago Sun-Times under its new management. (There are probably as many opinions regarding the journalistic abilities of Rupert Murdoch and his handpicked functionaries as there are, say, pandas in Washington.) The important […]
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Feiffer’s 55th/The Exploitation of Jimmy T./The Explots of Rupert M.
Feiffer’s 55th So, tell the truth: if it was your 55th birthday and you lived in Manhattan, would you fly to Chicago for a party that will be attended mostly by people you really don’t know? Well, you would if you were Jules Feiffer, because that’s what he’s doing this weekend. Yesterday was the cartoonist, […]