Yihla Moja (Revisited)
Sean MurphyOn Sept. 12, 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police...
10 for NYC by 10, on 9/11
New York City would be unimaginable without jazz, and vice versa. Here then is a...
The Shape of Jazz That Came…(Revisited)
1959 was a watershed year for jazz music (arguably the greatest single year for jazz...
Sonny Rollins, Still Living The Well-Lived Life (Revisited)
In honor of this American treasure –a literal living legend– on the occasion of his...
That Dog Will Hunt: Bill Clinton’s Big Gift
The Big Dawg was unleashed, and boy was Bubba barking last night. Employing his best...
J’adore Dorothy
The last time I felt obliged to link to the awesome Letters of Note (go...
A Kinder, Gentler Tarkus
As I attempted to identify the Top 25 Progressive Rock songs of all time a couple...
End of Summer (Camp) with a Bat, a Cat and a Clown (Revisited)
It is an inexorable, if lamentable rite of passage to revisit cultural mementos from one’s...
Right Turn, Clyde: Unwinding Clint Eastwood’s Epic Fail
So…where were you during Clint’s convention meltdown? Am I wrong in presuming this will become...
Encomium
August 30, 2002 I said: Everything that is good about me is because of my...