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Muslim Voices
In collaboration with Anastasia Tsioulcas and Hussein Rashid, I’ll be blogging as much as I’m able about the currently unfolding Muslim Voices Festival, co-organized by BAM and the Asia Society. Thank you, Anastasia, for your kind invitation and your kind words. Youssou N’Dour is at BAM tonight and tomorrow. I’ll be attending his film screening and show on Saturday and
Darcy James Argue redux
In the current Philadelphia Weekly: Darcy James Argue’s Secret SocietyFri., June 5, 8pm. $12. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215-895-6546 www.arsnovaworkshop.com Vancouver-born composer Darcy James Argue came to New York via Boston and launched what he calls a “steampunk big band,” Secret Society, in which he does not play an instrument. The name is a riff on the insularity of
On Steve Lehman
My preview of Steve Lehman’s octet gig at Le Poisson Rouge (Mon., June 8), in the current Time Out New York.
Six Picks: June 2009
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, June 2009: Jack DeJohnette/John Patitucci/Danilo Perez, Music We Are (Golden Beams) Paul Giallorenzo, Get In to Go Out (482 Music) Michael Musillami Trio + 3, From Seeds (Playscape) The Naked Future, Gigantomachia (ESP-Disk) Jeremy Udden, Plainville (Fresh Sound New Talent) WHO Trio (Michel Wintsch/Gerry Hemingway/Baenz Oester), Less
“Drobkin”
“Old Jews Telling Jokes,” a new website, was just covered in New York magazine and I was astonished to find that members of my extended family, and old college friends of my parents, are among the featured performers. Including this man, Malcolm Busch, who hasn’t aged a day since I met him when I was a kid. Wait for the payoff:
On Rebecca Martin
My preview of Rebecca Martin at Joe’s Pub (May 31), in the current Time Out New York.
Cheney: Supreme Court deliberations support terror
Not in so many words. But reading Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker piece on Chief Justice Roberts, I paused after this: Last year, Roberts dissented from Kennedy’s opinion for a five-to-four Court in Boumediene v. Bush, which held that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 violated the rights of Guantanamo detainees. And then I thought of this remarkable statement from Dick
The day in bigotry
From this NYT story on Coloradans who don’t want Guantanamo detainees moved to a nearby federal supermax prison: “People here are good Christian conservatives,” said Tom Baron, who described himself as a struggling small-business man, co-owner with his wife, Marie, of Donuts and Dogs, a coffee shop. Mr. Baron said he thought that large numbers of Muslims — the family