Music
Corbett vs. Dempsey, a gallery space and record label based out of Chicago, has released one of the music packages of the year: jazz legend Joe McPhee’s “Nation Time.” The four-CD set, which contains a 56-page book featuring an in-depth interview with McPhee, includes the original albums “Nation Time” and “Black Magic Man,” along with a 1969 concert in Poughkeepsie, NY, and a whole disc of unreleased tracks recorded at Vassar College. This is a must-have for jazz fans, the missing link between Ornette Coleman’s free-jazz experimentation and Miles Davis’s wild electric period. [Corbett vs. Dempsey, $50]
Film
On DVD, the Criterion Collection releases a gorgeous new Blu-Ray of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story.” If you’re in the mood for something more recent, pick up a copy of Margarethe von Trotta’s “Hannah Arendt,” a biopic of the late German thinker. [Criterion, $31.96/Zeitgist Films, $22.49]
In theaters, two of artist Ed Ruscha’s films are showing at New York’s Anthology Film Archives on November 24 at part of their “White Cube/Black Box” series, while the French Institute Alliance Française is screening Philippe Garrel’s “Regular Lovers” on November 26 as part of their essential series on the director.
Theater
Tonight, a new production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” premieres at the Lincoln Center Theater, starring Ethan Hawke in the title role. The show runs through January 11, and this is one you shouldn’t miss. [LCT, $77.00 - $157.00]
If you’re looking for a Shakespeare production that is less, well, dramatic, you should head out to the Theater for a New Audience, located in their new space near the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and check out Julie Taymor’s new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” [TFANA, $75]
