ArtsFuse published my Mid-Year Jazz Critics Poll, which collects the diligent research and expert listening skills of 90 of the world's most exacting jazz critics and fans. Essay includes top 50 new and top 20(+1) old music albums, with links to the rest. artsfuse.org/295460/diversi…

Update to Music Week worth reposting here, it is includes links to Mid-Year Jazz Critics Poll, as well as a few more notes: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which: last week (or so) in stories and comments (259 links, 11258 words): tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Music Week: 26 new albums, 0 A-list (been a long time since that's happened): tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which: working hard this week (254 links, 7 starred, 12958 words), lengthy intro on Israel: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Music Week: 32 albums, 1 A-list, mostly underground hip-hop I hadn't previously heard of: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which: all the news that's fit to link (270 links, 12539 words, 73 of them "Walz", which is 1 more than "Trump"): tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

I published one of my (rare of late) Q&A posts, mostly just questions of what do you think of so-and-so (or why haven't you listened to so-and-so)? Which is to say, on the time- and interest-imposed limits to my methodology: tomhull.com/ocston/qaread.…

Music Week: 37 albums, 1 A-list: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which ran into overtime once again, as I keep adding notes on recent articles, like this one by Omer Bartov: theguardian.com/world/article/…

Speaking of Which: 219 links, 12161 words on what happened last week, and why: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Music Week: 32 albums, 7 A-list, something new on Sam Rivers: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which covers the DNC, Trump's "one good day," the wars and atrocities neither party wants to face up to, lest acknowledgment turn into some kind of buzzkill: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Music Week: 39 albums, 1 A-list, end of August archive, fairly major adds to Speaking of Which: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which: Last week in 141 links, 10959 words: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Music Week: 39 albums, 7 A-list: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which: the week in 154 links, 10515 words: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Music Week: 34 albums, 7 A-list: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Speaking of Which: last week in 288 links, 15635 words: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…

Music Week: 37 albums, 10 A-list (!): tomhull.com/ocston/blog/ar…