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Record Club core member Nayland Blake received a nice feature in the Sunday NY Times today, in the article on portrayals of racism in contem...

Ever exploratory provided it doesn't get too inconvenient, Record Club staged its first video version last evening and it went very wel...

I haven't heard this yet, though it arrived yesterday with a couple of other things for review at Squidco (two nice discs, on first blus...

Yet more Point4 is a quartet, not surprisingly, made up essentially of two keyboards and two percussionists (Kenneth Karlson, Jon Balke, Bjø...

Recent pelf After an initial flurry of recordings sent my way in January, things had quieted down a good bit for a few weeks and I figured t...

I first heard percussionist Milton Cardona in the context of Kip Hanrahan's work in the early 80s. This album, "Bembe", appear...

I've been listening to Cardew's recording of "Thälmann Variations" a whole bunch over the last couple of weeks. This is th...

Went to Issue Project Room last night to hear an evening of the music of John Cage organized by Kurt Gottschalk and John McDonough. I’m pret...

The correlation between love of jazz and love of baseball has, I think, been established in the past, at least among American white guys (Do...

Back from the 31st Annual US Crossword Puzzle Championship, for the first time having been held in Brooklyn, NY after 30 years in Stamford, ...

What more to say about Van Vliet? My first CB was "Lick My Decals Off, Baby". My recollection is that Rolling Stone published four...

Over the weekend, I finished "Rabbit at Rest", the fourth volume of Updike's amazing series, charting the life of Harry "...

Just a wee plug for Tandem Electrics' fine disc, "Intaglio". Good, solid, propulsive noise, providing a well-needed ear scouri...

Received my copy of Marion Brown's "Afternoon of a Georgia Faun" yesterday. Always nice to see those old, German-issue ECMs. S...

Recent listening: I'd taken out my sole Cannibal Ox disc, "The Cold Vein" (their only release?), a few weeks ago, some thing I...

This wee image is the only one I could find of Dave Burrell's "High", released on Douglas in 1968. Wiki and other sources list...

I went over the historical whys and wherefores of Bryars' "Sinking of the Titanic" and "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me ...

Our good friend Alex has gone and set up a blog, Negative Potential . In the current entry he assigns more depth than did I to Mattin & ...

Went to hear Christian Wolff perform some of his music last evening at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company space. To the best of my recollect...

I know I've gone on often enough here and there about the great Marion Brown albums of the mid 70s, but damn they're good and still ...