streams of expression

Just out in Issue no.264 of Aperture magazine is my capsule review of the photobook Lee Scratch Perry Black Ark (Edition Patrick Frey, 2026), a visual inventory of what remains of the producer’s legendary Kingston studio.

Preview of a post on Substack: a second book chapter (on jazz poetics), and a survey of the critical field--jazz/poetry, critical legacies, collective remembrance.

Preview of a two-part Substack post on jazz and hip hop poetics.

Preview of a subscriber post on Substack on Nellie Wong and Harmony Holiday.

I was at a party on Saturday night when someone came in and said that a van had driven into the Berlin Christopher Street Day parade, killed one person, injuring more.

Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-2026) Abdullah Ibrahim, pianist, now follows James Blood Ulmer, guitarist, who died a few weeks ago; Sonny Rollins, saxophonist, who passed a few weeks before Ulmer; Gunter Hampel, multi-instrumentalist, former husband of Jeanne Lee,

Reproducing here liner notes to a new CD released by Edition Wandelweiser Records containing realisations of Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’s score what is left if we aren’t the world: recordings from 2022—an early home recording, the premiere performance in Amster…

Sonny Rollins on the Williamsburg Bridge, October 7, 1961 © Atsuhiko Kawabata (photographer) /Hanako Kawabata.

A subscriber post on Substack, on the great bassoonist Karen Borca.

A relatively spontaneous announcement of a relatively spontaneous gig: this for a new quartet combining poetry and music, with myself (poetry), Andrea Burelli (voice, poetry, perhaps violin), Lucio Capece (bass clarinet), and Stellan Veloce (cello).

Reposting here a piece which just appeared on the excellent online journal Little Mirror alongside Luke Roberts’ collection of Prynne memories.

A subscriber post on Substack: three fragments from Daybook, on Mal Waldron/Jeanne Lee (with excursions through Shepp, Coltrane, and Gilroy), Jacques Derrida/Ornette Coleman, and Anti-Fascist Noise.

Very pleased to announce the publication of Abstractive, a new collaboration between myself and Candace Hill Montgomery, begun in Sag Harbor in 2024 and just published by Further Other Book Works.

From Daybook.

A subscriber post on Substack on a solo guitar (and saxophone) set by Dirar Kalash, with diversions on Paul Klee, Christa Wolf, mathematics, awkwardness, blues, and cheerfulness as ways to utopia.

Mid-December 2004.

Charles Mingus recorded this version of Martin Niemöller’s anti-fascist warning in 1965.

A subscriber post on Substack about Chinese sound artist ake. ake’s biography describes her as “a surrogate weeper, currently working and living in Beijing, conducting site and context specific sound experiments, events, behaviors and installations, also…

No New Year’s list of projects like last year for 2026, but in the New Year, I’ll be endeavouring to write up my notes for reviews that didn’t manage to find a home elsewhere, potentially to include all or some of the following...

New Year (January 2025) (Update Post) Reprints from Materials (February 2025) (Update Post) Recent Poems Read (March 2025) Paul Shearsmith (1946-2025) (March 2025) MaerzMusik 2025 Report: Part 1 (May 2025) MaerzMusik 2025 Report: Part 2 (Mazen Kerbaj) (May

Bill Dixon, Codex Series I (lithograph, 1994) A subscriber post on Substack on some rare pieces by Bill Dixon and his relation to extended (or compressed) songform.

Angelika Niescier with Tomeka Reid and Eliza Salem, October 30, 2025, JazzFest Berlin.

Pat Thomas, JazzFest Berlin, November 2, 2025 © Berliner Festspiele, Camille Blake (The second of three subscriber posts on Substack on this year’s Jazz Fest Berlin.

Wadada Leo Smith, JazzFest Berlin, October 30, 2025.

In the past few weeks, I’ve been working quite intensively on a long essay on Cecil Taylor’s poetry for what looks to be an expansive collection on Taylor’s work edited by Peter Valente.