About David...
~ "Some of the finest prose I've carried." - Alan
Johnson, Editor, Democratiya.com
~ "Showing no signs of wackness whatsoever." - hiphopmusic.com
~ "One of two or three music writers I don't want to punch in the face." - a New York bassist
David R. Adler writes about music, politics and culture. He covers jazz for Time Out New York, Jazz Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, All About Jazz-New York and other publications. His work has also appeared in Philadelphia Weekly, Down Beat, Jazziz, The New York Times, The New Republic Online, Slate, Forward, Democratiya, New Music Box, All Music Guide, Global Rhythm, Signal to Noise, Coda, Jewish Currents and more. David is also the editor of Jazz Notes, the quarterly publication of the Jazz Journalists Association. He was a 2006 nominee for the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Newspaper, Magazine or Online Writing, given annually by the JJA.
David visited Fes, Morocco in June 2008 and wrote about the experience for the Forward. He also traveled to Dakar, Senegal in February (remarks here and here). His travelogue from a March 2006 trip to Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan begins here.
David's work for the British online journal Democratiya has been featured alongside that of Michael Walzer, Todd Gitlin and other leading thinkers of the democratic left. His most recent piece for Democratiya, a review of Kabir Sehgal's Jazzocracy, is here.
As a guitarist, David performed with a wide variety of musicians in some of New York's best venues, including Avery Fisher Hall, Roseland, Joe's Pub and Fez. During his tenure with the widely loved East Village band Keeta Speed (1996-1999), David worked with the famed producers Dave McDonald (Portishead), Patrick Dillett (B-52's, They Might Be Giants) and Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev).
Visit David's blog.
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"Man, you should challenge your own ideas about the world every day." - Mike Watt, Minutemen, 1985
~ "Showing no signs of wackness whatsoever." - hiphopmusic.com
~ "One of two or three music writers I don't want to punch in the face." - a New York bassist
David R. Adler writes about music, politics and culture. He covers jazz for Time Out New York, Jazz Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, All About Jazz-New York and other publications. His work has also appeared in Philadelphia Weekly, Down Beat, Jazziz, The New York Times, The New Republic Online, Slate, Forward, Democratiya, New Music Box, All Music Guide, Global Rhythm, Signal to Noise, Coda, Jewish Currents and more. David is also the editor of Jazz Notes, the quarterly publication of the Jazz Journalists Association. He was a 2006 nominee for the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Newspaper, Magazine or Online Writing, given annually by the JJA.
David visited Fes, Morocco in June 2008 and wrote about the experience for the Forward. He also traveled to Dakar, Senegal in February (remarks here and here). His travelogue from a March 2006 trip to Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan begins here.
David's work for the British online journal Democratiya has been featured alongside that of Michael Walzer, Todd Gitlin and other leading thinkers of the democratic left. His most recent piece for Democratiya, a review of Kabir Sehgal's Jazzocracy, is here.
As a guitarist, David performed with a wide variety of musicians in some of New York's best venues, including Avery Fisher Hall, Roseland, Joe's Pub and Fez. During his tenure with the widely loved East Village band Keeta Speed (1996-1999), David worked with the famed producers Dave McDonald (Portishead), Patrick Dillett (B-52's, They Might Be Giants) and Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev).
Visit David's blog.
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"Man, you should challenge your own ideas about the world every day." - Mike Watt, Minutemen, 1985