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POINT OF DEPARTURE
Bill Shoemaker, com o n.º 5 - Maio de 2006
Page One: Editorial
The Uh Uh Uhs: Commentary on Current Music Criticism
What's New: The PoD Roundtable
Moment's Notice: Recent CDs Briefly Reviewed
The Turnaround!: Previously Published Articles, Essays and Reviews
The Circle With A Hole In the Middle: Rare Vinyl Revisited
Travellin' Light: Iain Ballamy About Life on the Road
Free Jazz: The Point of Departure Contest
"Issue 5 inaugurates a new occasional feature, What’s New: The PoD Roundtable, which brings together persons of diverse backgrounds to discuss the issues shaping jazz and other experimental musics in the early 21st Century. Participants in the first roundtable include: author and Guelph Jazz Festival founder Ajay Heble; saxophonist, composer and activist Fred Ho; London-based improviser Caroline Kraabel; improviser and author George Lewis; and author George McKay. The Turnaround! features a 2004 blindfold test with trumpeter Dave Douglas, conducted at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The Circle with a Hole in the Middle revisits an out-of-print album by pianist Horace Tapscott and the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Saxophonist and Jazz UK house shrink Iain Ballamy takes the Travellin’ Light questionnaire. Moment’s Notice contains reviews of CDs by artists ranging from Juhani Aaltonen to Randy Weston. And, The Uh Uh Uhs (the name is taken from a Steve Lacy tune), which examines current music criticism, delves into the important new book + DVD, Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum.
If that’s not enough, the Free Jazz contest offers readers the chance to win real prizes. Courtesy of Barking Hoop Records, readers of Issue 5 will have the opportunity to win one of three prize packages, consisting of: a copy of Frozen Ropes, the collaboration between the String Trio of New York and saxophonist Oliver Lake, and a copy of Time-Space Modulator, by percussionist Kevin Norton’s Bauhaus Quartet" - Bill Shoemaker .
