Jazz-fusion, jazz-funk, jazz-rock…we’ve never been quite sure how to define the music that plugged in around 1969 with Miles Davis’ In A Silent Way and burned out some five years later when “jazz” pretty much left the hyphenate and all the other components—the things that hybridized it—began to short-circuit in…
Entries from July 2009
Days of Future Passed
McLaughlin and Corea look back and come up with something (mostly) new.
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Music Reviews
Hiking With Faulkner
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Reading William Faulkner’s The Bear on a five-day backpacking trip into the Montana high country reveals what we fear, what we love and what we’ve lost of wild country.
Tags: The Rabbit Rants
Jazz Review Sucks
What else is new?
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments
A Montreal Gazette blog review of Maria Schneider focuses on Schneider’s arms and hair color while comparing her orchestra to “your run-of-the-mill high school jazz band.” The review has set off a small brush-fire of web comment on the status of jazz criticism. The Rabbit puts up his ears and wiggles his nose…
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Insider’s Take
Gregoire Bouillier's present is a product of his past
July 8th, 2009 · No Comments
The author of The Mystery Guest explains his strange conception, his twisted upbringing and how a glimpse of a friend’s naked mother, followed by a street riot, seems to repeat itself every time he falls in love.
Tags: Book Reviews
Generation Gap
In Jay McInerney's short stories, the 1980s never end.
July 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Said of the 1960s, it’s also true of the 1980s: If you remember them you weren’t there. Reasons to forget? You worked and partied too long and hard and did too many drugs to maintain the rigorous schedule. You’ve repressed the embarrassing struggle to appear above your socio-economic status. And…
Tags: Book Reviews · Featured
Crying Out Loud
John Zorn's primal scream
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Not so long ago—if 40 years is not so long—a group of friends and I would gather for a solemn once-or-twice-a-year ritual. There was no given date for the event. Instead it was spurred by unusual circumstances, say the bombing of Cambodia or the acquisition of really good drugs. Duly…
Tags: Music Reviews
Snakes On the Move
In the woods, everything is symbol.
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments
The Rabbit is fresh back from four days wandering through the Black Canyon of the Yellowstone in northern Yellowstone National Park. Trips like these present unforgettable images and along the way everything turns to metaphor. The path, the descent, the climb—though there were no real mountains involved, just a short…
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