Sweet Dragon

I may or may not host New Orbit this coming Monday (rest assure, I have a competent sub in mind), but if you're up for a good read, check out Paris Transatlantic's Vision Festival X review (though I disagree with his critique on the Bill Dixon performance). It's one of the more articulate (if a bit prude-ish) avant-garde jazz/modern composition magazines I've read, so it comes with my recommendation. I also reviewed the Vision Festival at Opus a while ago.

Here are a few recent additions to my personal collection that'll get some spins on the show:
+ Joe McPhee- Tenor & Fallen Angels (Hat Hut): Reissue of the 1976 solo release. As bloody brilliant as you'd expect it to be.
+ Rabbincal School Dropouts- Cosmic Tree (Tzadik): Yay for klezmer jazz.
+ Raz Mesinai- Resurrections for Goatskin (Tzadik): More on the modern composition side, but who else is going to play it?
+ Milford Graves/John Zorn- 50th Birthday (Tzadik): Still hasn't come in the mail.

Yeah, lots of Tzadik love, but I found a guy on eBay with a bunch of it.