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SOUND CHECK - NEW ALBUM REVIEWS
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JAZZ
Bill Frisell
History, Mystery (Nonesuch)
Guitarist Bill Frisell has inhabitated many genres over the past
quarter century. Sometimes he manages to do so on a single album, as
he does on his new two-disc set. After a pair of trio-format
releases, Frisell returns to eccentricity on "History, Mystery,"
enlisting a motley crew of talent to sculpt his sound - cornetist
Ron Miles, saxophonist Greg Tardy, violinist Jenny Scheinman,
violist Eyvind Kang, cellist Hank Roberts, ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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The Next Big T'ing; In Elephant Man, Reggae Dancehall Has an Unlikely New Torchbearer
The Washington Post
; Downstairs at Beat Street Records, surely the best hip-hop music store in Brooklyn and maybe in all of New York, hundreds of people have lined up for an appearance by the reggae dancehall star known as Elephant Man. And they are pumped. A deejay is playing tracks from Elephant Man's new album,
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Elephant Man, Mashing It Up
The Washington Post
; The eruptions of frenetic dancehall music sensation Elephant Man make his genre's top dogs look stodgy. He's the hottest Jamaican export since Sean Paul. His madcap gig at Crossroads Entertainment Complex in Bladensburg during Thursday's wee hours was untamed and racy, as the Kingston- born artist
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Nocturnal `Elephant Man' shines
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; It's not Bernard Pomerance's thoughtful and well-constructed play. It's not the Bialystock & Bloom theater company's solid production. It's the hour at which "The Elephant Man" is starting at the Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center that causes the yawns. The 110-minute production began at
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Elephant man's disease disputed // Doctor backs rarer diagnosis
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Elephant Man didn't have elephant man's disease, a researcher reported Tuesday in Chicago. Elephant man's disease, or neurofibromatosis, is named after the case of Joseph Merrick, a horribly disfigured 19th century Englishman whose life inspired a 1979 play and 1980 movie. Three-dimensional
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STAR-POWERED 'ELEPHANT MAN'
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; 00-00-0000 STAR-POWERED 'ELEPHANT MAN' By ROBERT FELDBERG, Staff Writer Date: 02-17-2002, Sunday Section: SPECIAL SECTION / ENTERTAINMENT Edition: All Editions -- Sunday THE ELEPHANT MAN: A play revival, at the Royale Theater, 242 W. 45th St. Written by Bernard Pomerance. Previews begin March 26;
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Elephant Man's Mental Makeup
The Washington Post
; "The Elephant Man" Through Sept. 8 Olney Theatre Tickets: 301/924-3400 A few pounds of latex, a mouth full of marbles, a burlap cape and your aunt could play the Elephant Man. But Bruce R. Nelson, the actor in the title role in Olney Theatre's current production of "The Elephant Man" (above, with
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'Elephant Man' on Vortex stage Play explores human co-existence, self-acceptance
Albuquerque Journal
; "The Elephant Man" could easily have been about man's inhumanity to man. But it's not. It's about man's need to reach out and touch, even if what is being touched is thought untouchable. " 'The Elephant Man' isn't necessarily about having to accept people who are different," director Robert Johnson
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Elephant Man
The Village Voice
; Reggae dancehall's reigning brash and bold head-chopper-offer isn't afraid to be absurd ELEPHANT MAN Goods Go VP NOT AN ANIMAL When did hip-hop become such serious business? Rappers nowadays-moonlighting as moguls or bickering over who's the 'realest"-can't seem to lighten up. But last year,
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Getting to the Heart of 'The Elephant Man'; Actor Does Not Need Makeup to Convey Pain and Humanity of John Merrick
The Washington Post
; Audience members curious to see how the Port Tobacco Players have presented the hideously deformed body and face of John Merrick -- "The Elephant Man" -- may, at first sight of the actor portraying him, be disappointed. If they are, they likely were expecting to see a grotesquely disfigured "thing"
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Elephant Man ruled Cari-Fest, Capleton, Wayne Wonder excited
The Weekly Gleaner
; DANCEHALL STAR Elephant Man had little competition from the bigger acts at Cari-Fest 2003, leaving everyone else in the dust as he engaged the crowd with a pulsating, energetic stint that could not be matched as he put his stamp on the dancehall genre and showed convincingly why he currently rules
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