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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)
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