Feature Stories and Articles

The following essays and articles are organized by date published, most recent at top.

Academic Publications

• "Free Jazz/Punk Rock." Forthcoming. Nyuu jazu sutadizu [The New Jazz Studies] (Tokyo: Kirara shobou)

Music Journalism

• 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.