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Books Review

Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation

by Sarah Boslaugh

[24.Jun.09] :. Pekar finds splendor where others might see only grind, and has a gift for finding the telling anecdote or quotation to illustrate a point or typify a character.

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Re:Print

The Beats: A Graphic History

by Chris Barsanti

[15.Apr.09] :. This quick-take introduction to the beatnik generation is about three-fourths excellent short-take biography and one-quarter well-meaning addendums of varying quality.

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Books Review

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff

by Zeth Lundy

[5.Apr.09] :. Ratliff eschews the typical trappings of routine biography to plumb more profound ideas of musical language, identity, and influence.

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Sound Affects

John Zorn: Rebel with a Cause

by Sean Murphy

[31.Mar.09] :. I’ve not said much to say, in print, to this point about John Zorn for a variety of reasons, but it ultimately boils down to two very simple issues. First, there is so much to say it’s...

Sound Affects

Column: Jazz Today

Ravi Coltrane: The Son Also Rises

by Will Layman

[19.Feb.09] :. Tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane manages to look backward without seeming stale, and manages to deflect his sound off of his father's without either outright rejection or pale imitation.

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John Zorn by John Brackett

by Michael Patrick Brady

[28.Jan.09] :. One must be willing to risk being consumed by the dark, cabalistic world Zorn has created around his art.

The Best Jazz of 2008

by Will Layman

[17.Dec.08] :. More than ever, the best jazz is coming from small labels, and more than ever the best draws a decent slice from the dynamics of rock and pop music without itself being a commercial venture.

DIY: Takahiko Iimura

by Michael Barrett

[8.Oct.08] :. Takahiko Iimura read about the American underground film movement and began making experimental works based only on what he'd read. Soon he was a leading experimental filmmaker.

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

by Marc Calderaro

[25.Sep.08] :. We're given the legacy of one of the 20th century’s most influential avant-garde filmmakers and artists, but also the sad, thin-skinned ego of a societal outcast.

Zorn and Britney: The strange dance between artist and press

by Jason Gross

[10.Mar.08] :. When composer/saxist John Zorn invited journalists to a pair of weekend shows, his one request was that they would not write about it. Of course, the next thing that happened was that a flurry of...

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff

by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[8.Jan.08] :. Story of a Sound isn't just the story of a sound. It's a piece of jazz criticism that passionately questions and enhances the role of jazz criticism.

Roy Haynes: A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story

by Zeth Lundy

[5.Nov.07] :. Highlights from the jazz drummer's six-decade career grace this three-CD/one-DVD retrospective, including performances with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Sarah Vaughan.

John Coltrane: Interplay

by Zeth Lundy

[25.Oct.07] :. Coltrane's supportive role as a sideman is highlighted on this five-disc collection of "blowing sessions" recorded for Prestige in the late '50s.

Postcards by Jason Rodriguez [Editor]

by Leslie Joseph

[10.Sep.07] :. Of significant note to comic fans may be the inclusion of a story by the prolific Harvey Pekar.

Another jazz ‘Trane arriving on his own terms

by Tim Blangger [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[17.Jul.07] :. More than 40 years after his death in 1967, John Coltrane, the iconic jazz saxophonist, still casts an imposing shadow over jazz. Ravi Coltrane, who never met his famous father, is well aware of his...

Celebrating John Coltrane, Personally

by Will Layman

[9.Mar.07] :. Spurred on by a couple of anniversaries, a new podcast "Traneumentary", and plenty of memory, Layman reflects on the music and meaning of John Coltrane.

The Best American Comics 2006

by Dante A. Ciampaglia

[25.Jan.07] :. By virtue of Pekar's immersion in the comix underground, he's uniquely equipped to lead newcomers on a tour of the best graphic work of the past year that reveals its depth and breadth.

The Microscopic Septet: Seven Men in Neckties/Surrealistic Swing

by Will Layman

[12.Jan.07] :. Possibly the most vital jazz group of the 1980s, in retrospect.

Best Jazz of 2006

by Will Layman

[11.Dec.06] :. Will Layman's list of the year's best jazz records, a hearty baker's dozen, includes iconoclasts, eccentrics, avant-gardists, and some downright swingers.

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings

by Will Layman

[8.Dec.06] :. The classic studio meetings between Monk (teacher) and Coltrane (student), still tantalizing and uneven.

John Coltrane: The Bethlehem Years

by David Marchese

[7.Nov.05] :. His work in Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk's bands from the same era feature much more exploratory, innovative, and passionate playing.

American Splendor (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.03] :. Is there a finer actor on the planet than Hope Davis?"

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition]

by Scott Hreha

[16.May.03] :. Any serious attempts at jazz or blues scholarship—professional or amateur—invariably lead to searches for rare or lost artifacts whose existence is rumored but rarely ever even verified....

John Coltrane: The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording

by James Beaudreau

[24.Sep.01] :. In 1957 John Coltrane had a spiritual awakening. In previous years, he had been a talented and risk-taking saxophonist with a stylistic debt to Dexter Gordon who had won possibly the most coveted...

John Coltrane, The Classic Quartet

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