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My review of saxophonist Michael Pedicin and his quintet, in today’s Inquirer.

We’re giving the people of Zimbabwe another opportunity to mend their ways, to vote properly. This is their last chance.  — A member of Zimbabwe’s ruling party politburo, on the upcoming runoff “election” [Via.]

Avaaz.org is raising awareness and soliciting donations on behalf of victims of the cyclone in Burma. Thousands of lives might have been saved had Burma’s repulsive military government, um, shared the news that a cyclone was coming. This makes the Bush administration’s Katrina response look like a model of caring leadership. The Burmese junta is all crisp efficiency when it

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I recently had the pleasure of writing four short sketches on King Britt, Gerald Levinson, Peter Paulsen and Jamey Robinson — the 2007 Pew Fellows for music composition. You can now view short film segments on each of these varied and remarkable artists at the Pew Fellowships site, here. If you cursor over “Description of Work” on the left sidebar,

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In case you missed the last one… Box, Studio 1 (Rune Grammofon) Dapp Theory, Layers of Chance (ObliqSound) Taylor Eigsti, Let It Come to You (Concord) Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet, One Dance Alone (Songlines) Soren Kjaergaard/Ben Street/Andrew Cyrille, Optics (ILK) Pete Robbins, Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy (Playscape)

My review of William Parker’s Curtis Mayfield project at the Painted Bride, in today’s Inquirer.

To quote Chuck D, don’t tell me that you understand, until you’ve heard the man.

Go Frank Rich: In the 21st century, the so-called party of Lincoln does not have a single African-American among its collective 247 senators and representatives in Washington. […] A near half-century after the civil rights acts of the 1960s, this is quite an achievement. Yet the holier-than-thou politicians and pundits on the right passing shrill moral judgment over every Democratic

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