Thursday, September 9 2010
The Marsalis Family: Music Redeems
Perhaps the most talented family alive, the Marsalises deliver a live recording to benefit a music center being built in the still-devastated upper Ninth Ward of their native New Orleans.
Monday, March 30 2009
Wynton Marsalis: He and She
The great trumpeter brings his quintet to a project combining music and poetry -- and the music is great.
Friday, February 27 2009
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
As framed in Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, carpenter Irving Trevigne's will to preserve the past is admirable but also set against a series of challenges.
Wednesday, January 21 2009
Live from Abbey Road: The Best of Season One
This release meets high visual and aural standards, honoring Abbey Road's unmatched reputation as a recording studio.
Monday, February 11 2008
Wynton Marsalis: Standards and Ballads
A collection of purely played jazz standards/ballads plucked from the trumpeter's huge Columbia catalog.
Friday, May 11 2007
Full Frame 3: The Bad, the Ugly, the Cute and the Delicious
Subversive behavior is encouraged, girl-watching is indulged, Hunter S. Thompson gets some respect, and the pig-out at the wrap-up Awards Barbeque begins.
Wednesday, January 10 2007
Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006
From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.
Monday, August 21 2006
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
When the Levees Broke, elegant and anguished, encourages you to see, and more importantly, to care about and act on what you see. It is political in the most significant sense, and won't let you forget it.
