Ntozake Shange and Kahil El'Zabar
The Fringe Festival
Wednesday May 26 Trouble in Mind Never say Mike Johnson doesn't have a sense of humor. Following the breakup of his marriage to Juned…
With the Noise Pop Festival only a couple of weeks away, folks may have thought Poptopia! poorly placed. After all, Noise Pop is something…
Count Basie Orchestra (Grover Mitchell, Conductor) 7th Note Showclub Monday, Nov. 23 The Count Basie Orchestra came to town last Monday on the heels…
The Monorchid Who Put Out the Fire? (Touch and Go) The existential angst of ineffectual white males is well past new or interesting. The…
“The Animal Other” The plangent wah-wah of vintage Duke Ellington accompanies the gyrations of sea horses in the opening images of Jean Painleve's The…
The Joel Harrison Octet For his CD debut, 3+3=7, guitarist Joel Harrison assembled an intuitive double-trio of percussionists and fellow six-stringers who blurred the…
