John Litweiler

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The Point Of Departure web site, edited by the fine critic Bill Shoemaker, features interviews with important musicians and essays and reviews by some of your favorite veteran jazz and improvised-music scribes, including Art Lange, Brian Morton, Stuart Broomer, Ed Hazell, Troy Collins, and Bill himself. Point Of Departure is refreshed /​ updated quarterly and I also write frequent "Moments Notice" reviews for it. You can read it at www.pointofdeparture.org

Some web-only essays by JL of special interest from the SIMA (Sydney Improvised Music Asociation) web site:

Reasons for Hope: 21st Century Jazz
http:/​/​www.sima.org.au/​2008/​05/​05/​reasons-for-hope-21st-century-jazz
Bernie McGann on CD
http:/​/​www.sima.org.au/​2007/​06/​11/​bernie-mcgann-on-cd
The 2006 Vision Festival and Ornette Coleman
http:/​/​www.sima.org.au/​2006/​06/​27/​the-vision-festival-and-ornette-coleman
Recent (a.o. 2006) Jazz Explorations in Chicago
http:/​/​www.sima.org.au/​2006/​03/​24/​recent-jazz-explorations-in-chicago
The Necks in North America
http:/​/​www.sima.org.au/​2009/​02/​26/​the-necks-in-north-america

A bunch of other articles and reviews by me are on the Jazz Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Tribune, and Reader, and New York Times web sites - who knows, maybe on some other web sites, too.