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New York @ Night: January 2009
January marks my return to All About Jazz-New York as one of four New York @ Night columnists. This month: short reviews of Harris Eisenstadt’s quintet at Cornelia Street and Jon Irabagon at Tribeca PAC.
On Joshua Redman
My review of Joshua Redman’s double-trio CD Compass, in the current issue of Time Out New York. [Update: I was just alerted to an event featuring Redman and Gary Giddins in conversation: Joshua Redman & Gary GiddinsFriday, January 16, 2009 6:30 pm – 8:00 pmElebash Recital HallThe Graduate Center, CUNY365 Fifth Ave (at 34th St)Free and open to the public —
A concluding thought
As I’ve said, there’s little point to debating a moral illiterate like Gabriel Ash, who writes fan letters to the Iranian Supreme Leader. But his take on Iraqi sanctions requires a brief comment. Anyone who states, as Ash does, that “the U.S. led sanctions regime consisted in murdering children as a policy tool,” and who holds Saddam’s regime not one
Rosen PPS
I hadn’t seen Norm’s dissection of Nir Rosen before I wrote mine. It’s worth reading, and this line sums it up: [Rosen] has a moral argument he wants to make on the subject of attacking civilians and he makes it, but under cover of denying the resources of moral argument on that subject to everyone but the weak. His argument
Rosen PS
My post on Nir Rosen has provoked the sputtering wrath of antizionist blogger Gabriel Ash, who ridicules me as a liberal (that is exactly correct) and alludes to a previous disagreement we once had. That disagreement, in case you’re wondering, was over Palestinian suicide bombing. Ash refused to condemn it, on grounds similar to Nir Rosen’s, as it happens: we’re
Part of the problem
I’m putting up this photo [via] to drive home the reality: the excellent singer Annie Lennox, near a banner that reads “Stop the Holocaust in Gaza,” is marching next to a man, George Galloway, who has venerated Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao’s regime, Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah and of course Saddam Hussein. “Stop the Genocide”? George Galloway praised Saddam in person,
Nir Rosen, propagandist
[Cross-posted at Z Word.] Glenn Greenwald links, with some caveats, to this piece by Nir Rosen as a “must-read” on the Gaza conflict. “…[Rosen’s] generalized explanation about how the concept of ‘terrorism’ is distorted and exploited by stronger countries can’t be emphasized enough.” What can’t be emphasized enough is that Rosen’s case is sophistry from start to finish. I’ve profited
Gaza: escalation
Early reports have it that Israel has launched a ground invasion of Gaza. I don’t agree with every word of this Johann Hari piece, but hand it to him for getting this exactly right: Israel’s leaders have convinced themselves the harder you beat the Palestinians, the softer they will become. But when this is over, the rage against Israelis will