Recents updates

I've just added the five most recent articles that I've contributed to FAN Fanzine on the Norwegian section of the blog. These are fairly short pieces on Mike Reed, Nels Cline, Bill Dixon, Mike Watt and Minutemen, and David S. Ware. No versions in English, I'm afraid.

FAN and jazz-links

FAN #11 will be out tomorrow, so I have now posted my article on Mostly Other People Do the Killing, written for the previous edition, on the Norwegian section of Perfect Sounds.

Chicago drummer Mike Reed, whose last few records I have liked a lot, talked to Jason Crane on the frequently enjoyable Jazz Session podcast at the end of January. Mr. Reed is in the middle of a three album project inspired by Chicago's considerable, but underrecognized, hard bop-and-beyond jazz music. Around the same time, WFIU did a show on that very topic, discussing and playing the music of some of the unsung heroes of Chicago hard bop. You can listen to the program here.

Perfect Sounds - in Norwegian is alive

Perfect Sounds - på norsk is up-and-running again, but will only be used for the purpose of linking to or posting articles I have written for publications in Norway. Many of the articles I've now put up there are taken from the free music mag FAN Fanzine, and have been posted on the blog as they were when I sent them in, sans editing (more info at the bottom of each article). Since FAN is a paper only magazine, the idea is that once a new issue is published, I'll post the article from the previous issue on PS - på norsk.