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...jazz equivalent of stunt casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis protege, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway. Doc 's 91. The tunes here are standards, many of them--like Black and Blue--part of Louis Armstrong's repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one's suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times...
MUSIC . . . DOC CHEATHAM & NICHOLAS PAYTON: It?s the jazz equivalent of stunt casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis prot?g?, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway. Doc ?s 91. The tunes here, writes TIME?s Bruce Handy, are standards, many of them -- like Black and Blue -- part of Louis Armstrong?s repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one?s suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull...
That would be Val Kilmer the meticulous student of each role he plays, from randy Jim Morrison in The Doors to the courtly, consumptive Doc Holliday in Tombstone. On that night in Australia, says Noyce, "he was already acting the role of the Saint." Later Noyce and scriptwriter Wesley Strick trekked to South Africa, where Kilmer was shooting another film. "Let's go," the actor greeted them. He hopped into a Land Rover and, steering wheel in one hand, cigarette in the other, drove them madly across dirt roads to a distant campsite where he was living in a tent...
...ring and who wrote all his essays about Hunter S. Thompson, rushes past in an Armani suit, barely nodding as he passes out of sight into some building you've never noticed before. Your familiar drab red sidewalks and dreary staircases are suddenly pounded by Bali shoes, crunching your Doc Martens, pointing their way to Wall Street, engaged in a spring ritual called Recruiting...
...festival ends with a trio of shorts that both exalt and skewer classical music and opera. "Rhapsody Rabbit," "The Rabbit of Seville," and "What's Opera, Doc?" are wonderful, if skewed, introductions to music and theater...