Dans la nuit du 6 au 7 novembre 2004, les forces américaines et irakiennes donnent l'assaut au bastion islamiste de Fallouja, une ville de près de 300 000 habitants située à une soixantaine de kilomètres de Bagdad, au cœur du triangle sunnite baassiste. …
Tenor saxophonist Fred Hess blew off on a free tangent in 2002 with Exposed (CIMP Records), employing an Ornette Coleman style quartet containing two horns, bass and drums. He followed up on that approach with three excellent Tapestry Records discs, Extended Family (2003), The Long and Short of It (2004), and Crossed Paths (2005), with the latter pair cementing the Ken Filiano (bass), Ron Miles (trumpet) and Matt Wilson (drums) line-up that has carried over to Hess' more recent quintet albums, How 'Bout Now (Tapestry, 2006) and In the Grotto (Alison Records, 2007).