Name: Stephen V Funk
Dateline: Chciago, IL
Weblog: serenadeingreen.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 88
First Published: Monday, December 5, 2005
Last Published: Thursday, June 7, 2007
Currently listing articles 88-51:
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E.T.: The Mix Tape— The "Voyager Golden Record" doesn't seem to be working... maybe we can do better?
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Concert Review: Bjork (Chicago, IL 5/12/07)— Are we having fun yet...?
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Concert Review: Keith Jarrett - "An Evening of Solo Piano Improvisations" (2/17/07, Chicago, IL)— "Keith Jarrett's first solo piano recital in Chicago since 1985..." No pressure, Keith!
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The 15 Greatest Albums of All Time [1981 Edition]— Set the Wayback Machine for 1981...
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Music Review: Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (for 400 Electric Guitars)— An electric "Amen"...
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Chicago's Jazz Showcase Shuttered— Chi-town's oldest jazz club closes its doors after 60 years.
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Ten Turkeys of 2006— The disappointing, the uninspired, and the flat out bad CDs of 2006, including the dreaded Turkey of the Year Award.
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Fifteeen — OK, Twenty Favorite CDs of 2006— Vegas, Moondog, Thundergods, Keystone, Big Sur, a pair of Altars, and a Tight Sweater for good measure.
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Ten Favorite DVDs of 2006— Playmates, Homicide, Wordplay, and, of course, Bullshit.
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Music Review - Moondog: Rare Material— Rare (and not-so-rare) material by the blind, Viking-garbed, counterpoint-obsessed composer-busker-percussionist-philosopher Louis "Moondog" Hardin.
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Music Review: Sinatra: Vegas
— Frank Sinatra: Live and uncensored in Fabulous Las Vegas! Well... almost.
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Music Review: Love and Kisses— Given the huge amount of instruments in this project, Costandinos must have blown all of the cocaine-fueled budget amassed by Casablanca at the time.
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Why Tower Matters (To Me, At Least)— Why do the kids always have to ruin everything for the rest of us?
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The (Steve) Reich Stuff— Steve Reich @ 70: A personal appreciation...
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Top Ten Trane Tracks— Put this in your iPod and smoke it, kids! A John Coltrane 80th birthday tribute for the MP3 era.
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Concert Review: Vashti Bunyan and Archer Prewitt, Chicago, Sept. 11, 2006— Welcome back, Vashti. We need you, now more than ever.
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Leggo My Emmy— All my shows were losers. And so am I.
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CD Reviews: Aki Tsuyuko - Hokane / Carol Robbins - Jazz Play— Eccentric Japanese organ and elegant jazz harp... together at last.
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CD Review: Kon & Amir & DJ Muro - The Kings of Diggin'— "An Obscure Collection Of The Most Sought After Breaks Ever Recorded." HFJF!
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CD Review: Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways— American V (or is it VI?): Thanks to Rick Rubin, Johnny Cash is still among us...
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CD Reviews: Brad Mehldau - Love Sublime and House On Hill— Darn. Double Darn.
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DVD Review: Richard Thompson - 1,000 Years of Popular Music— Behold: The greatest set list of the millennium.
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The (Unheard) Impulse! Records Story— Beware of major multimedia conglomerates bearing gifts.
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DVD Review: Gustav Mahler/Uri Caine: detaching from the world— What a dud. What a bore. What a shame.
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Composer Gyorgy Ligeti Dies at Age 83— Beyond 2001: The blogosphere bids a fond farewell to the brilliant Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti.
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CD Review: Susanne Abbuehl — Compass— The perfect soundtrack for long rainy days, musty used bookstores, and lonely campus coffee shops...
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DVD Review: I Could Go On Singing— A confused hybrid of melodramatic soap opera, London travelogue, and Judy Garland stage performance. Ink-a-dink-a-dink!
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Concert Review: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (5/27/06)— Daniel Barenboim bids farewell to the land of elevator music and millionaire widows.
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CD Review: Ingram Marshall - Savage Altars— The title track may very well be Ingram Marshall's "expressivist" masterpiece.
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CD Review: John Foulds - Dynamic Triptych (and other orchestral works)— A unique musical visionary who explored Asian music, microtones, and mysticism. He was also a bit of a nutjob.
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TV Review: Boston Legal - Season Finale— "To the mountains... the prairies... the whores. America the Beautiful."
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TV Review: Grey's Anatomy - Season Finale— Anatomy of a feel-bad finale...
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TV Review: Survivor: Panama - Exile Island Finale and Reunion Special— Goodbye, Survivor. Hello, SurvOprah.
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CD Reviews: The Music of Jon Gibson— Three CD reissues of rare and striking early minimalism — "not the other musical Jon Gibson of Christian music fame."
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CD Review: AFX - Chosen Lords
— "Machines are going to fail. Systems are going to fail. Then... survival."
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CD Review: The Trip (Navigated by Joey Negro)— An eclectic two-CD mix collection that's thankfully more than just a pair of overpriced aluminum coasters.
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CD Review: Philip Glass - Symphony No. 8— When you hear the opening moments, you might exclaim, "Hell yeah, Phil baby... that's more like it!"
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CD Review: Matthew Schroeder - Signal— Hang out on the porch, enjoy the breezes, pop open a cold one, and listen...
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