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Music after 9/11
The following book review appears in the Winter 2008 issue of Jazz Notes, the quarterly journal of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA), edited by yours truly. — Music in the Post-9/11 WorldJonathan Ritter and J. Martin Daughtry, eds.Routledge, New York/London, 2007; 328 pp.; $24.95 paperback Review by David R. Adler In the liner notes to Up For It, written about
“The duality of man”
Violent hip-hop lyrics, we’re told, don’t really glorify violence — either they hold up a mirror to harsh reality or offer a fantasy escape from same. Brian McManus, my editor at Philadelphia Weekly, puts a knife in that argument, and twists it. It’s hilarious.
Critical Improv Intensive
My piece about the “Improvisation, Community and Social Practice” initiative, a pioneering seven-year study funded by the Canadian government, is now online at NewMusicBox.org.
On Sonny Fortune
My review of Sonny Fortune’s Saturday gig at Chris’s Jazz Cafe, in today’s Inquirer.
Year in Review 2007
It’s a rough estimate but I’ve listened to some 700 CDs this year. I’ve attended nearly 200 live performances. Again I’ll point you toward my top-ten list at the JJA website (other members’ lists here), and my cumulative Six Picks for the year. But I’m taking this opportunity to add additional titles, list my top shows and throw in other
On Tigran Hamasyan
My review of pianist Tigran Hamasyan at the Sunside club, in Paris, is now up at JazzTimes.com.
The Kiriakou file
The ABC News interview with former CIA interrogator John Kirikaou (transcript here and here) seems to sidestep what was reported two days ago in the NY Times: that Abu Zubaydah was giving vital information to the FBI before being tortured by the CIA. Kiriakou’s view, that waterboarding is wrong but it works, also obscures the fact that it isn’t just
Blind Boys/Dirty Dozen
My review of the Blind Boys of Alabama and Dirty Dozen Brass Band, a Sunday night double bill at the Kimmel Center, in today’s Inquirer.