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On Guillermo Klein
My review of Guillermo Klein’s brilliant new album Domador de Huellas, in this week’s Time Out New York. Klein and his group Base de Nave are at the Village Vanguard August 17-22.
Plagiarism is plagiarism
As a new professor, I’m not sure what’s worse — plagiarism or the new wave of pseudo-intellectual argument justifying plagiarism, as explored in this NYT piece: “This generation has always existed in a world where media and intellectual property don’t have the same gravity,” said Ms. Brookover, who at 31 is older than most undergraduates. “When you’re sitting at your
New York @ Night: August 2010
Below, from the August 2010 issue of All About Jazz-New York. (Check the new AAJ-NY website, the result of its split from AllAboutJazz.com.) — There was one sure way for tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger to heighten the freewheeling melodic onslaught of his quintet gig at Smalls (July 1st): add alto saxophonist Loren Stillman to the frontline. Ornette Coleman’s music was
Six Picks: August 2010
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, August 2010: Jamie Begian Big Band, Big Fat Grin (Innova) Willie Jones III, The Next Phase (WJ3) Jacám Manricks, Trigonometry (Posi-Tone) Bernardo Sassetti Trio, Motion (Clean Feed) Roland Vazquez Band, The Visitor (ind.) Sean Wayland, The Show Must Go On (Seed)
Oliver Stone’s theory
“Jewish domination of the media.” I didn’t think my opinion of this huckster could sink any lower. Comments from Norm Geras, Judeosphere, Z Word, Modernity Blog. Stone has issued an apology. Translation: he’s sorry for revealing to an interviewer that he’s essentially a far rightist, an apologist for dictators, a man without a shred of moral comprehension, an ignoramus who
The week on disc (76)
In case you missed the last one… Mike Mainieri, Crescent (NYC) Sun Ra, College Tour Vol. I: The Complete Nothing Is… (ESP-Disk) Andy Jaffe, An Imperfect Storm (Big Round) Jacob Duncan/John Goldsby/Jason Tiemann, The Innkeeper’s Gun (Bass Lion) Stephen Haynes, Parrhesia (Engine) Paul Carr, Straight Ahead Soul (ind.)
A new chapter
Blogging these days is slow for many reasons, one being that I’ve accepted a position as adjunct lecturer in jazz history at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College. My course begins August 30, and I’ve been hard at work preparing. Very hard at work. One consequence is the growing stack of new and unlistened-to CD releases near my
No place for racists?
As much as I applaud the NAACP for calling out rampant racism within the Tea Party movement, the problem is this. The NAACP’s rhetorical strategy is a delicate one; they don’t want to alienate masses of blue-collar whites who might be drawn to the Tea Party’s brand of (I would argue phony) libertarianism. So the NAACP instead insists that the