Fred Anderson and Andy Pierce at Louis Armstrong's home, Queens, New York City, in June, 2008. Photo by JL
Corey Wilkes. Photo by JL
Borah Bergman. Photo by JL
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WorksThe 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 Mojo Snake Minuet: A Novel by John Litweiler
Mojo Snake Minuet is more than a thriller. As lowly reporter Yakub Yakub searches amid beautiful divas in symphonic joints, a private witch, TV news griots, black minstrels in whiteface, defrocked Voodoo priests, and the white ghetto, this tale blows the cover off the race, music, religion, news, and other shameful rackets. Shiny, Shiny: A Novel by Michael O'Flaherty
Memories of '70s / '80s girlhood... Family life in exurbia... Armed communist revolution... And the disembodied flying head of George W. Bush... Where is Jane going? And will she ever get there? |
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