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Lars Scherzberg: Top Floor Encounter
by John Chacona
The first phase of jazz was characterized by melodic improvisation. In its second phase improvisers dealt with harmony and, in the current phase, density is the improviser's concern. So says Anthony Braxtonif I understand him correctly (if anyone does). If so, then Top Floor Encounter may be as characteristic of our time as Armstrong's Weatherbird" was to the first phase of jazz or Trane's Giant Steps" was to the second. I didn't say as important as" or as good as"only ...
read moreLars Scherzberg-John Hughes-Jeff Arnal: Top Floor Encounter
by Glenn Astarita
German composer, Dietrich Eichmann’s “Oaksmus” label is rooted within free jazz, avant-garde classical and electronics-based formats. Here, Americans, Jeff Arnal (percussion) and John Hughes (bass) align their wares with German alto saxophonist, Lars Scherzberg for a program consisting of nine free-style opuses that often spur notions of the British free jazz movement.A graduate of Vermont’s prestigious “Bennington College,” Jeff Arnal has been shedding with New York City-based saxophonist, Blaise Siwula and Baltimore’s fine bassist/composer, F. Vattel Cherry. On ...
read moreDirector John Hughes Has Died of a Heart Attack at Age 59
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Michael Ricci
John Hughes, director of such films as Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, has died of a heart attack, he was 59 years old.
Hughes died suddenly while taking a morning walk in New York City. The writer, director grew up in the Chicago area and directed such hits as Pretty In Pink, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Weird Science. Many of his films were set in the Chicago suburbs.
Hughes had gotten his ...
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