Larry Kart

Everyone, or almost everyone, knows what to expect from Martin Short. The elfin clown has given us (first on the ''Second City Television'' series and then, for one season, on...

In his relatively brief life, George Gershwin made an immense contribution to the American musical theater. But in this year, the 50th anniversary of his death, the nature and dimensions...

The special stuff at the New Regal Theater is drawing to an end (black-tie dinners, grand opening concerts and so forth), and now it`s time for the venue to prove...

It would be possible, perhaps, though far from advisable, to hold the NBA All-Star game in your basement. And much the same judgment applies to ''Festival On Ice''--which attempted Tuesday...

Premiere recordings of two recent major works from Elliot Carter, who may well be our most important living composer. At age 78, Carter shows no sign of lessening in inspiration....

In these days of bebop and post-bop revivalism, it`s instructive to hear the real thing, which is more or less what this album has to offer. The leader, trumpeter Conte...

How not to be a tourist seems to be the problem that bedevils every cinematic observer of black American life--although, if the filmmaker happens to be black, how not to...

If Ornette Coleman is the most revolutionary and the most satisfying jazz musician of the last 25 years (and a case can be made that Coleman is both of those...

If there is one band that typifies the so-called neoclassical trend in jazz, in which young players attempt to revive the styles of the mid-1960s, it is the co-operative sextet...

The city`s late, great and totally unsedate Chez Paree nightclub on the Near North Side will ''Chez It Again'' under new management in early May. Once the city`s ''smartest restaurant...