Silver Apples of the Moon

Subotnick, Lillevan, Unsound make Lincoln Center an electric circus

MortonÂ Subotnick re-mixes original materials of his prophetic and unprecedented late ’60s Â electronic music classic “Silver Apples of the Moon” with kinetic imagery by video artistÂ LillevanÂ tonight (April 7)Â at the Rubenstein atrium of Lincoln Center –Â as detailed in myÂ columnÂ in City Arts – New York. It’s free as part of the 11-dayÂ Unsound Festival,Â an extraordinary schedule of new and […]

Toxic Gowanus, Brooklyn neighb of new music lofts

Gowanus, a Brooklyn neighborhood so unlovely it’s been named an EPA superfund site, is Ground Zero now for music lofts, as reported in my new City Arts-New York column. In a half dozen or so artist-run spaces — including IBeam, Douglas Street Collective, Littlefield, the Brooklyn Lyceum and Issue Project Room — available for presentation and rehearsal […]

I'm a Chicago-born (and after 32 years in NYC, recently repatriated) writer, editor, author, arts reporter for National Public Radio, consultant and nascent videographer -- a veteran freelance journalist working on newspapers, magazines and websites, appearing on tv and radio, teaching at New York University and elsewhere, consulting on media, publishing and jazz-related issues. I'm president of the Jazz Journalists Association, a non-profit membership organization devoted to using all media to disseminate news and views about all kinds of jazz.
My books are Future Jazz (Oxford U Press, 1999) and Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008). I was general editor of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues (Flame Tree 2005/Billboard Books 2006). Of course I'm working on something new. . . Read More…