Miscellaneous

I've read what William F. Buckley

Posted on November 12, 2007
I've read what William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal had to say about the famous exchange in which Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi", and Buckley offers to sock Vidal in the face, but I'd never seen it. This is why the World Wide Interweb is so great...

To the Tord Gustavsen Trio last

Posted on November 11, 2007
To the Tord Gustavsen Trio last night, part of Bruce Eaton's Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz series at the Albright-Knox. Because his style is quiet and contemplative Gustavsen draws comparisons to Bill Evans, but although anyone who likes Evans would probably enjoy Gustavsen the comparison falls down when you consider the way the two pianists swing-- Gustavsen's swing is elongated, and is as much about the space around the composition as it is his left hand-- a common quality among the artists on the ECM label, as Bruce pointed out in his pre-show talk...

Norman Mailer is a writer everyone

Posted on November 10, 2007
Norman Mailer is a writer everyone has an opinion about, but I have never had any difficulty persuading anyone who has ever read him of his greatness. In a way the fact that he was so prolific may have been part of the problem; he was outsized in both his output and his personality, and it often seemed as if people formed their opinion of this nuanced, meticulous mind by measuring the quantity of output, rather than by evaluating its subtle qualities...

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