David Adler
Mos Def unplugged
Via a Facebook friend.
On White Rocket
My preview of White Rocket (Jacob Wick/Greg Felton/Sean Carpio) at Gojjo, in the current Philadelphia Weekly.
The week on disc (37)
In case you missed the last one… Gerry Hemingway & Thomas Lehn, Tom & Gerry: Kinetics (Auricle) Tom Warrington Trio, The Mountain (Jazz Compass) John O’Gallagher Trio, Dirty Hands (Clean Feed) Alex Cline, Continuation (Cryptogramophone) Gerald Cleaver/William Parker/Craig Taborn, Farmers By Nature (Aum Fidelity) The October Trio + Brad Turner, Looks Like It’s Going to Snow (Songlines)
Freedom of speech
Johann Hari is right.
Arts funding II
A good outcome, reports Anastasia…
A horror
Alison Des Forges, Africa specialist with Human Rights Watch, was among those lost on the plane that went down outside Buffalo. She was 66. Her work was heroic, her death a calamity not only for her family but for the worldwide human rights community. [HRW’s tribute here.] I’ve also just received notice that Gerry Niewood, veteran saxophonist, is among the
A Pashtun demo
This, via Terry Glavin, is something remarkable: TORONTO – Pashtun-Canadians of Pakistan and Afghanistan origin are organizing an anti-Taliban rally to protest the ongoing massacre of Pashtun people in Northern Pakistan by the Taliban. In our first ever anti-Taliban rally in Canada we are protesting outside Queen’s Park to highlight the unreported “Genocide of 52 million Pashtuns” by the Taliban
On Felipe Salles/MOPDTK
My previews of Felipe Salles and Mostly Other People Do the Killing, in the current Philadelphia Weekly.