James Falzone’s music has always spanned aesthetics. The Chicago native, who plays clarinets, shruti box, and percussion, has led and participated in ensembles that create various combinations of jazz, classical, and Arabic traditional music; he’s also served as an instructor at Columbia College and as music director of Grace Chicago Church. In 2016, he moved […]
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Three restless musicians—Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, and Paul Lytton—push one another to new horizons
Update: The Nate Wooley/Ken Vandermark/Paul Lytton trio have canceled their tour. This show will proceed with Kuzu and a duo of Vandermark and Lytton. Local clarinet and saxophone player Ken Vandermark, Brooklyn-based trumpeter Nate Wooley, and English percussionist Paul Lytton played their only handful of gigs as a trio in 2011, but their collective history […]
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Jim Dorling of the Pillowhammer on a kinder, gentler sort of earworm
Current musical obsessions of the Reader’s Peter Margasak, the Pillowhammer’s Jim Dorling, and the Father Costume’s Sam Wagster
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The classic album Self Determination Music is finally back in circulation
The group’s 1970 album for Flying Dutchman is finally reissued on CD for the first time.
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Octogenarian cornetist Bobby Bradford is still blowing cool
The veteran LA jazzman sounds great on a new record with Norwegian reedist Frode Gjerstad.
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A crucial document of LA’s jazz avant-garde gets reissued by local imprint International Phonograph
The Giant is Awakened, searing intensity from the great LA pianist Horace Tapscott
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A classic album by the John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet gets the proper treatment
Chicago’s International Phonograph imprint has released a lavish reissue of the classic 1969 album Flight for Four.
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This week’s movie action
Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm in Friends With Kids It’s troubled teen week at the European Union Festival Film Festival, whose offerings include Putin’s Kiss, a Danish documentary about the rabid pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi; Innocence, a Czech suspense flick about a 14-year-old who accuses her doctor of rape; Ave, the story […]