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Ron Paul redux
His speech at CPAC has Andrew Sullivan gushing once again. Given Sullivan’s laudable and oft-stated contempt for the tea party right, it’s odd he should still be so taken with Paul, whose backers are at the very core of tea party lunacy, according to Tom Schaller and Dana Goldstein. And let’s not forget that after dropping out of the 2008
Changes afoot
In the near future I’ll be upgrading and relaunching adlermusic.com and migrating Lerterland over to that domain, possibly under the same blog name, possibly not (should I flip a coin?). It’s a long overdue change that will streamline things for me online, so please follow me there and take part in getting the new site off the ground. I’ll post
Philadelphia haps, cont’d.
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: 53 Stations/The ScriptorsWed., Feb. 17, 9pm-2am. $5. Tritone, 1508 South St. 215.545.0475 www.tritonebar.com Jazz has its titanic Ellingtons and Coltranes, but delving into material by such under-the-surface geniuses as Steve Lacy and Herbie Nichols can be just as all-consuming. The Wilmington quartet 53 Stations — saxophonist Jason Shapiro, trumpeter Bob Meashey, bassist Dylan Taylor and
Marc Cooper’s new blog
Reporter War Stories. Great reading so far. Cooper in Chile, El Salvador and elsewhere, back in the day.
The week on disc (65)
In case you missed the last one… Alex Hargreaves, Prelude (Adventure Music) Ian Carey Quintet, Contexualizin’ (Kabocha) Mario Adnet & Philippe Baden Powell, Afrosamba Jazz: The Music of Baden Powell (Adventure Music, 2009) Chris Icasiano & Neil Welch, Bad Luck (Belle) Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord, Accomplish Jazz (Hot Cup) Frank Vignola, 100 Years of Django (Azica)
Hands, teleprompters
“Which is more egregious?” [McCain] asked reporters. “Reading a word from your hand or from a teleprompter?” From this story on the increasingly odious John McCain and his bumbling, near-pitiable defense of Sarah Palin. (Hat tip Marc Cooper.) I’m stating the obvious but I can’t help myself: President Obama, like his predecessors, and like Palin herself at the 2008 Republican
Iverson, Collier, Kelsey
~ In this remarkable post on Wayne Shorter, Ethan Iverson apologizes publicly to Matthew Shipp for words that I quoted in my recent JazzTimes feature on Shipp [pdf]. I want to thank Ethan for weighing in, but I also want to state for the record that my intention certainly wasn’t to put Ethan on the spot. I included the quote
On Kneebody
My preview of the four-night Kneebody residency at 45 Bleecker (Feb. 17-20), in the new Time Out New York. [Update: 45 Bleecker is not just a “series,” but a concert space. And the Kneebody shows take place next week, not “this week” as my preview states — I won’t go into TONY’s arcane calendar procedures, but the preview had to