Review Roundup

MOST of these reviews were mentioned on my Twitter account when they appeared, as Twitter's brevity is better suited to quick shout-outs and announcements, but enough of them have been posted recently that I thought them collectively worth mentioning here.

There's the Complete Studio Recordings of the Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach Quintet (which didn't really exist under that name) over at All About Jazz. Read the review here. The disc is a re-release that combines the original versions, albeit out of sequence, of Clifford Brown and Max Roach's At Basin Street and Sonny Rollins' Plus Four. Even now, I'm still no closer to understanding why they altered the sequencing.

Then there's my review of Warren Buckland's (ed.) Puzzle Films: Complex storytelling in contemporary cinema in the TLS. You'll need a subscription to the archive or a nearby newsstand to read that one. Reviews of Michael Tratner's Crowd Scenes: Movies and mass politics and Jerry Oppenheimer's Toy Monster: The big, bad world of Mattel should be appearing in the same publication soon.

Finally, I've reviewed the first English translation of Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann for Rain Taxi. That one can be found here.

As soon as I've worked my way through a backlog of editing, I'll be posting reviews (here and elsewhere) that I've been meaning to get to for months now.