?I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.? Evelyn Beatrice Hall Free At Last El Bashir Hazzam was arrested in Taghjijt, Morocco on December 7, 2009, and sentenced to four months in jail for blogging about a student demonstration. The Facebook group set up by… Read more »
Juzzie Smith is an Australian musical one-man-band capable of playing slide guitar, didgeridoo, harmonica, and rhythm instruments, and singing?all phenomenally well?more or less at the same time. Juzzi’s music is characterized by a driving energy and brilliant melodic ideas within a traditional (somewhat) roots context. An avid street performer for whom busking has been a… Read more »
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Two Buoyant and Life-affirming Oeuvres Involving Corin Raymond CD: Corin Raymond, There Will Always Be a Small Time Release date: 2009 ?I went down to the record store the record store weren’t there no more and though I hate to see it go I guess that don’t really bother me I pay my bills and… Read more »
Gordie Tentrees is a roots-influenced singer-songwriter with a penchant for gritty, feel-good hymns to love, restlessness, and the pure religion of the open road. His latest CD, Mercy or Sin, is a rich stew of poetry and blues minstrelsy (see Voice review here). Recently Gordie took the time to chat with Wanda Waterman St. Louis… Read more »
?…happy, man! just happy! until we grudgingly shuffled outside to find the horizon had sucked the sun in leaving behind a smudge of colors like a fly swatted against the wall and our nightmares standing out there patiently waiting.? A. T. B., from ?this American dream? 2009 On December 1 university students gathered to stage… Read more »
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Jan Wouter Oostenrijk is a Dutch guitar wizard who has contributed significantly to the current crossover between jazz and the music of the Maghreb region, a fusion he calls Maghreb Jazz. (Be sure to read the profile of Jan in Maghreb Voices, in this issue of The Voice.) Recently he took the time to talk… Read more »
? . . . I discovered that mixing my jazz background with northern African music provided a great opportunity for new musical crossovers. I had already been inspired by innovative musicians like Joe Zawinul and Miles Davis. I also felt there was a social need for this new music because of the incredible amount of… Read more »
Chris Rehage is a German university student who began to walk across China in 2007. After completing a third of his journey he decided to return home and finish his degree. Rehage chronicled this walk, and his reasons for ending it, in his website The Longest Way, which holds a fascinating array of incredible photos… Read more »