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Recent Updates

I successfully completed my Ph.D. preliminary exams in December 2008. Glad to have those out of the way.

In May 2008 I completed my M.A. in ethnomusciology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My thesis, titled "Hearing War, Seeing Music: Violence, Aesthetics, and Technology in Online War Music Videos," was based on a yearlong, ethnographically-informed research project on war music videos, their creators and audiences. I plan to expand on this current research for my Ph.D. dissertation.

My article, "Free Jazz/Punk Rock," will be available in the forthcoming collection titled Nyuu jazu sutadizu [The New Jazz Studies] (Tokyo: Kirara shobou), co-edited by Micahel Molasky and Toshifumi Miyawaki. My essay addresses the intersections of the two seemingly disparate genres beginning in the late 1960s.

My current project interests include online military/war music videos; audiovision and violence; avant-garde jazz and the proto-punk movement; sound studies and ethnomuiscological theory; genres of free improvisation and Noise; post-bop jazz drumming; gender and violence in American balladry; and jazz, civil rights, and the black power movements.

Music Reviews

The following are published reviews.

All About Jazz:

• David S. Ware Quartet — Renunciation
• Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton — Zafiro
• Drumheller — Wives

One Final Note:

• Muhal Richard Abrams — "The Visibility of Thought"
• Braxton / Szabados / Tarasov — "Tritone"
• Anthony Braxton — "Solo (Milano) 1979, Vol. 2"
• John Butcher & Gino Robair — "New Oakland Burr"
• Jerome Cooper — "In Concert: From There To Hear"
• Whit Dickey Quartet — "Coalescence"
• Dominic Duval / Joe McPhee — "Rules Of Engagement, Vol. 2"
• The Exciting Trio — "In Chicago There Is Willy"
• James Finn — "Opening the Gates"
• James Finn Trio — "Faith in A Seed"
• Fonda / McPhee / White / Karetnick — "Heat Suite"
• Masashi Harada Condanction Ensemble — "Enterprising Mass Of Cilia"
• Elvin Jones — "The Truth: Heard Live At The Blue Note + Someday My Prince Will Come"
• Koch-Schütz-Studer — "Life Tied"
• Natasza Kurek Group — "Incantation"
• Joëlle Léandre / Mark Nauseef — "Evident"
• Léandre / Maneri / Marguet / Ryan — "For Flowers"
• Lukas Ligeti — "Mystery System"
• Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre & The Light meet Adam Lane — "Paths to Glory"
• Roscoe Mitchell — "Solo 3"
• Jemeel Moondoc — "Live At The Glenn Miller Café, Vol. 1 + Live At The Vision Festival"
• Simon Nabatov Trio — "Autumn Music"
• Kevin Norton — "Ocean Of Earth + Intuitive Structures"
• Parker / Schlippenbach / Lytton — "America 2003"
• Pauline Oliveros & Reynols — "The Minexcio Connection : Live! At The Rosendale Café"
• Evelyn Petrova — "Year's Cycle"
• Phillips / Léandre / Parker / Saitoh — "After You Gone"
• Plunge — "Plunge"
• Sawai / Doneda / Imai / Lê Quan / Saitoh — "Une chance pour l'ombre"
• Sirone Bang Ensemble — "Configuration"
• Soft Machine — "Live in Paris: May 2, 1972"
• Sun Ra Arkestra — "Music For The 21st Century"
• Cecil Taylor — "Algonquin"
• Cecil Taylor — "Almeda + All The Notes"
• Tigersmilk — "From the Bottle"
• Assif Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani — "Come Sunday"
• Bertram & Nancy Turetzky — "Music For Flute(s) And Contrabass, I"
• Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts — "Wake Up! (To What's Happening)"

Trouser Press:

• Sonny Sharrock

Feature Stories

The following published essays touch upon various aspects of my jazz journalism. They are organized by date published, most recent at top.

• "Free Jazz/Punk Rock." Forthcoming. Nyuu jazu sutadizu [The New Jazz Studies] (Tokyo: Kirara shobou)
• What's that sound? — Feature story about the University of Minnesota's annual Spark festival. (Winter 2009)
  
• Wadada Leo Smith: The OFN Interview [part 2] — Second part of hour-long interview with Smith.
• Dropping Acid And Speaking Esperanto, Man!: The Return Of ESP-Disk — Review of the legendary label's not so triumphant return.
• Wadada Leo Smith : The OFN Interview [part 1] — Part one of an hour-long interview with trumpeter, improviser, composer Smith.
• Penguin Guide to Jazz, Seventh Edition — Book review of the now standard jazz guide.
• Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost — Box set review, co-written with Scott Hreha of One Final Note.
• Harris Eisenstadt: The Next Wave — Profile of drummer, improviser, composer Eisenstadt.
• 11th Annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium — Review of 2004 season.
• The Completist Syndrome, Part 2 : Bootlegs — An off the cuff look into the nature of unofficial recordings.
• The Completist Syndrome, Part 1: Official Recordings — A turn towards the fetishism of music collecting.
• Red Toucan : Then And Now — Red Toucan Records label retrospective.
• The Roaring Silence: In Memory of Elvin Jones — Threnody for the late Elvin Jones.
• Greetings: Poetry Journal — Essay review of poetry/music journal.
• Mixing it up at Northrop — Feature story about the 10th anniversary of the Northrop Jazz Season. (Winter 2004)
• The Healing Power of Music — Reflections on the power of Jazz as embodied by the music of Elvin Jones. Originally published in Modern Drummer magazine.