i'm still in touch with the world

Tuur Florizoone has a new website. The most original section is the Erratum page, which lists the various ways his name has been written, ranging from Tuur Verbruggen to apparently incorrect Mandarin.

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Ellery Eskelin discusses his next album, which won't be on Hat Hut, but on his own label. More composed than Ten, and with singer Jessica Constable and a second keyboardist joining the core trio on some tracks. Tantalising.

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visionsong takes on Dave Douglas's post-Vietnam jazz history challenge with a series of posts (cf. comments of second post).

Speaking of Douglas, this new AAJ interview is a good place to get lengthy explanations of things that have popped up on the Greenleaf Music blog. [via erg]

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Alex Ross's New Yorker Morton Feldman article is highly worthwhile, even for those as ignorant of the composer as I am.

David Adler's Andrew Hill feature is excellent and by far the best I read surrounding the release of "Time Lines." His review of Jason Moran's "Rough Crossings" concert is also of interest.

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It runs in the family: David Valdez on Jorge Rossy's trumpet-playing 12-year-old son ("A seventh grader playing better than most pros!") and other Barcelona happenings.

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Doug Ramsey remembers Clifford Brown.

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Why do people still write about jazz like this? At least Blogcritics redeems itself with this list of albums Impulse! should reissue and proof that John Coltrane smiled, at least twice.