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A letters exchange on Chavez
I have a letter in Jewish Currents magazine (March-April ’06) responding to Bob Cartwright’s adulatory article on Hugo Chavez in the previous issue. In my letter I argue that Cartwright glossed over Chavez’s professed admiration for dictators on the order of Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro. I also noted that Chavez traveled to Libya in 2004 to accept the grotesquely
A reader responds
Back in November I harshly criticized The World Can’t Wait, an activist “coalition” fronted by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Just the other day I discovered that this comment had come in from a reader: I am not a communist, i am a part of this organization. Our organization is united around “The Call”, the call is not communist at all,
Book review — addendum
Space didn’t permit me to mention, in this book review, an arresting statement from author and UK-based jazz critic Stuart Nicholson. In his introduction he conveys “grateful thanks” to, among many others, “Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon for our conversations about the issue of identity in jazz….” Atzmon’s views on identity are interesting indeed, and I’ve discussed them on numerous occasions. A
South Dakota’s abortion ban
Good segment about this on last night’s Newshour, transcript here. The most revealing exchange was this one, in which Fred De Sam Lazaro (I’ve always loved his name) puts a question to state senator Bill Napoli: FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Napoli says most abortions are performed for what he calls “convenience.” He insists that exceptions can be made for rape
The untold story
Bill Weinberg writes about what’s being called the “Iraqi civil resistance” — nonviolent, pro-feminist, anti-jihadist, anti-occupation — at WW4 Report. The flagship organization is the Iraqi Freedom Congress, and it’s being supported by Japan’s Movement for Democratic Socialism, to the apparent chagrin of the totalitarians of ANSWER (U.S.) and Stop the War (UK). Money quote from the IFC’s Samir Adil:
Rare vinyl
There’s a worthwhile analysis of Andrew Hill’s rare solo piano LP, From California With Love, at the great new webzine Point of Departure. I recently found the LP on eBay, and after a long wait, it arrived from Holland, cracked. Got a refund, located another copy stateside — this one including the original booklet, an even rarer find. I’m happy
“Is Jazz Dead?” — a book review
The following review is slated for publication in the March 2006 issue of Jazz Notes, the quarterly publication of the Jazz Journalists Association, edited by yours truly. —Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address)By Stuart NicholsonRoutledge, New York/London, 2005; 270 pp; $19.95 paperback Review by David R. Adler With the title of this book, Stuart Nicholson
Article links
Click through for PDFs of my most recent feature stories for Jazz Times magazine. The Chris Potter piece appeared in the March 2006 issue; the Andrew Hill piece is hot off the presses for April.