Burning Ambulance 5: Winter 2011

by Michael Kaplan, Kim Kelly, Steve Hicken

Fifth issue of a periodic journal of the arts. Includes: a mammoth cover story on New York-based jazz/funk/rock/improv/soul/hip-hop crew Burnt Sugar, built around interviews with co-founders Greg Tate and Jared Michael Nickerson; interviews with saxophonist Marcus Strickland, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, and Swans founder Michael Gira; a roundtable discussion assessing the contemporary state of North American black metal, with contributions from members of Averse Sefira, Infernal Stronghold, Krallice, Krieg, Lightning Swords of Death, Panopticon, Xibalba, and Yaotl Mictlan; a profile of improvising guitarist and composer (and former Burnt Sugar member) Morgan Craft; an essay on Cecil Taylor's amazing band of spring and summer 1978; an analysis of the meaning of time in music; and a look back at director Monte Hellman's movie Two-Lane Blacktop, 40 years after its initial release. Contributing writers include Kim Kelly, Michael Kaplan, Phil Nugent, and Steve Hicken.

123 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 2011

About the author

Michael Kaplan is a writer and filmmaker. He holds an undergraduate and Master's degrees in History from Harvard University. He finished graduate studies at the University of Oxford.

He is the co-author alongside his mother, Ellen Kaplan, of the Bozo Sapiens Why to Err Is Human and Chances Are... Adventures in Probability.
He is currenlt a managing partner of Prospero, (a communications company with government and corporate clients in North America, Europe and Asia).