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Jazz Scholarship: The Next Generation
The Jazz Journalists Association presents: “Jazz Scholarship: The Next Generation”A Jazz Matters panel Featuring Alex Rodriguez, “White and Blue: Alternate Takes on Jack Teagarden” Jared Negley, “Sweetness and Brutality: The Life and Music of Sonny Sharrock” Paul Brady, “Django Reinhardt the Jazz Musician: His Abilities, His Influence, His Legacy” David R. Adler, moderator The New School for Jazz and Contemporary
New York @ Night: March 2010
In the new All About Jazz-New York: — Following the success of In What Language? and Still Life with Commentator, pianist Vijay Iyer and poet Mike Ladd are developing another topical multimedia show with the provisional title “Holding It Down.” Their theme this time: the war-haunted dreams of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. A work-in-progress performance at the HarlemStage Gatehouse (Feb.
McKinney and friends
A quick follow-up to my previous post: in the comments, a friend has reminded me about this lovely photo (scroll down) of Cynthia McKinney posing with her new pal, the raving antisemite and borderline sociopath Israel Shamir, who is arguably worse than Gilad Atzmon. In addition to falsifying his name and his background, “Shamir” has advocated coalition-building between Palestine activists
John Pilger and the enabling of antisemitism
[Cross-posted at Z Word. And Harry’s Place.] To find journalist-ideologue John Pilger ranting about “the criminality of the Israeli state” and “the murderous, racist toll of Zionism” is all too routine. (Hat tip Oliver Kamm.) What’s new is this: Pilger trots out “the expatriate Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon” as a representative good Jew, emblematic of “the heroes of Israel” and
Phil Freeman on Shipp
Phil Freeman has a lengthy piece about Matthew Shipp on the Burning Ambulance site. In the course of the article he takes a few misleading swipes at my recent JazzTimes feature [pdf], so I ought to correct the record. Affecting a high-road posture, Freeman tells us that he’ll no longer take the bait and print Shipp’s more virulent quotes, and
Obama’s Cantor smackdown
Conventional wisdom remains that our president is a wimp, spineless, etc., which flies in the face of jujitsu moments like this (hat tip Marc Cooper): And that’s not to deny that Obama, in his way, makes use of political theater, which is what that health care summit was. But taking the opportunity to call out Republicans on their nonsense for
On Atomic
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: AtomicMon., Mar. 1, 8pm. $12. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.895.6546 www.arsnovaworkshop.org Back in Philly after their late January gig with the sprawling Circulasione Totale Orchestra, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love will join Swedish/Norwegian brethren Magnus Broo (trumpet), Fredrik Ljungkvist (reeds) and Håvard Wiik (piano) in the winning quintet known as Atomic.
The week on disc (66)
In case you missed the last one… Mike Olson, Incidental (Henceforth) Ralph Bowen, Due Reverence (Posi-Tone) Paul Kikuchi & Alexander Vittum, Tide Tables: Lost Birdsongs (Prefecture) Roberto Fonseca, Akokan (Justin Time) Michael Janisch, Purpose Built (Whirlwind) The Norrbotten Big Band, The Avatar Sessions: The Music of Tim Hagans (Fuzzy Music)