Kevin Whitehead

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the new movie "Shadowlands" starring Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger. It's based on the lives of British writer C.S. Lewis and the American poet who became his wife, Joy Gresham. Whitehead, who is Fresh Air's regular jazz critic, is filling in for film critic Stephen Schiff this week.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a new CD-box set, just right for the jazz-lover in your circle of family or friends "Ornette Coleman: Beauty is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings," (on Rhino).

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews trumpeter Eddie Allen's (aka E.J. Allen) new album, "Another's Point of View."

Kevin Whitehead reviews saxophonist Evan Parker's new release, "Conic Sections" on the Ah Um label.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Reginald R. Robinson's album "The Stongman."

Kevin Whitehead reviews the latest entries in Hollywood's "lovers-on-the-run-through-blinding-deserts" genre: "Kalifornia" and "True Romance" (scripted by Quentin Tarantino, who blessed us with his "Reservoir Dogs" last year).

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "The John Coltrane Anthology: The Last Giant" (Rhino/Atlantic).

Film critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "Coneheads," the latest Saturday Night Live-inspired movie. It stars Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a 2-CD reissue of trumpeter Don Cherry's albums recorded for Blue Note in the 1960's.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "Shanghaied on Tor Road," a new release of German improviser and guitarist Hans Reichel playing an instrument of his own invention, the daxophone -- a stringless, amplified piece of wood.