Tag: Vol. 31 No. 27

Bobby Few was a journeyman jazz pianist in Cleveland until the late 60s, when his friend Albert Ayler persuaded him to move to New York. There he recorded with Ayler (on the free-jazz kingpin’s pleasantly wacko crossover records) and a couple other power tenor saxophonists, Booker Ervin and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. In 1969 he moved […]

In an interview on danceonline.com, New York-based choreographer John Jasperse posed an obvious question seldom asked: “We [dancers] are showing our bodies all the time–where’s the boundary of it becoming pornographic?” So it’s not surprising that the emotional heart of the 90-minute work Jasperse is showing here, Giant Empty, is a duet between two nude […]

Wealthy, disaffected Asian-American teenagers in Orange County progress from cheating to theft to murder in this controversial shocker by writer-director Justin Lin. There’s something refreshing about the violation of ethnic stereotypes, especially when the stereotype is politically correct and the violation is more than a simple counterstereotype, and Lin clearly wants to make the kids’ […]

With his noisy, hyperactive 1999 debut, Don’t Sweat the Technics, Kid606, aka Oakland’s Miguel Depedro, ushered in the new wave of electronic music: brash, obnoxious, and with an undeniable personality. Artists like Cex, Lesser, and Blectum From Blechdom, all of whom have recorded for his Tigerbeat6 label, have followed his lead, charting out their own […]