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“Manda huevos”
As they say in Spanish. What balls. Fidel Castro is not satisfied with President Obama’s steps to relax the Cuban embargo. Apparently the U.S. needs to live up to Castro’s high ethical standards: Castro responded to the measures in an online column Monday night, writing that the U.S. had announced the repeal of ”several hateful restrictions,” but had stopped short
Quote of the day
“But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective, to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or
Coates on Castro
“Dude, he’s a dictator.” That’s Ta-Nehisi Coates’s refreshingly simple takedown of Representative Bobby Rush, who has expressed the highest regard for Fidel Castro after a trip to Cuba. Rush has long availed himself of the right to participate in democratic elections in the United States. Yet he has no problem heaping praise on a man who has denied Cubans the
New York @ Night: April 2009
This month in All About Jazz-New York, reviews of Edward Simon at the Vanguard and the SFJazz Collective at the Allen Room.
On Big Monday
My preview of Big Monday (Tritone, April 13), in the current Philadelphia Weekly.
John Hollenbeck in Philadelphia
My story [pdf] on John Hollenbeck’s “Big Ears” residency at the Painted Bride, Philadelphia, in the May 2009 issue of Jazz Times. Note: The photo shows Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble, not the Philadelphia “Big Ears” band, as the caption states. [Update: It’s still wrong in the mag, but the pdf is now fixed.]
The week on disc (40)
In case you missed the last one… One for All, Return of the Lineup (Sharp Nine) Denman Maroney Quintet, Udentity (Clean Feed) Ton Trio, The Way (Singlespeed) John Hollenbeck, Rainbow Jimmies (GPE) Alex Sipiagin, Mirages (Criss Cross) The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings (Fantasy/Concord)
On FLY
My feature on FLY (Jeff Ballard/Mark Turner/Larry Grenadier) is in the current Time Out New York. FLY plays the Jazz Standard April 9-12. I am forced to point out that the following grammatical error: “A reluctant leader, his four-album stint on Warner Bros ended in 2001, …” is not mine.