Tag: Vol. 29 No. 30

TONY BEVAN British saxophonist Tony Bevan is living proof that you can’t measure an improviser’s talent by the length of his discography. He’s released about as many albums in his decade-plus career as guys like John Butcher and Evan Parker do per year, and the most recent, a 1998 three-inch CD called Three Oranges (Foghorn), […]

KENNY BURRELL & ERNIE ANDREWS Kenny Burrell came out of the fertile crescent of Detroit jazz in the 1950s and promptly established himself as the guitar voice of the hard-bop movement–the next link in a chain of fret men that descended from protobopper Charlie Christian through bebop players like Tal Farlow and Jimmy Raney. And […]

Anarchist, publisher, comedian, Yippie clown, and “investigative satirist” Paul Krassner has been stirring things up since the early 60s, outliving most of his own iconoclastic generation, among them Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, whose autobiography he edited. (Sahl is technically alive but lost his comic edge at about the time he started cuddling up to […]

When Liza Minnelli sang in the movie Cabaret about a friend who died “of too much pills and liquor,” audiences inescapably heard the line as a reference to her mother, Judy Garland–and feared the same fate would befall the daughter Garland had with film director Vincente Minnelli. But Liza, now 53, proved herself a victor, […]

Saint Petersburg choreographer Boris Eifman apparently does nothing small, taking the stories and movements of classical ballet, in which he’s obviously well versed, and amplifying them almost beyond recognition. Red Giselle, to be performed as the troupe’s Chicago debut, transports all the pain and passion of the 1841 original into a 20th-century story based on […]