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On John Zorn
My review of John Zorn’s Philly extravaganza, in today’s Inquirer.
Six Picks: March 2008
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, March 2008: Jane Ira Bloom, Mental Weather (Outline) Gerald Cleaver, Gerald Cleaver’s Detroit (Fresh Sound New Talent) Drew Gress, The Irrational Numbers (Premonition) Russ Nolan, With You in Mind (ind.) Spring Heel Jack, Songs and Themes (Thirsty Ear) Tony Wilson/Peggy Lee/Jon Bentley, Escondido Dreams (Drip Audio)
Cohen on Beijing 2008
Nick Cohen gets the Olympics right: The only justification for the Beijing games is that they will allow connoisseurs of the grotesque to inspect this ghoulish hybrid of the worst of capitalism and the worst of socialism close up. The march of China’s bloodstained allies round the stadium will merely be the beginning. The International Olympic Committee and all the
Clinton on Medvedev
Yes, it was embarrassing.
Obama on Farrakhan
I don’t like the “Farrakhan litmus test” any more than The Root’s Marjorie Valbrun does, but Tim Russert had a valid reason for pressing Obama on the issue last night. And Obama’s answers ought to put the matter to rest. There are no grounds to doubt him on the issue of antisemitism. (Funny that Obama’s on the hot seat for
More on Rushdie
My take on Salman Rushdie’s Philly lecture, online at Philadelphia Weekly.
NY Phil in Pyongyang PS
In this post I faulted Lorin Maazel’s relativistic statement on North Korea but credited him for clarifying and revising it. What I should have done was give the full quotation, which is far more offensive in its entirety: People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw bricks, should they? Is our standing as a country — the United States —
On the Mingus Big Band
My review of the Mingus Big Band at the Kimmel Center, in today’s Inquirer.