Easter Sunday and Eric Dolphy
Sean MurphyEric Dolphy’s Avowal* Eric Dolphy’s alto is less a solo than an announcement: not unlike...
National Poetry Month Meets Marvin Gaye
I was aware (and in awe) of John Goodman before I reviewed his book (10...
National Poetry Month Meets Howlin’ Wolf
National Poetry Month rolls on. Thanks again to Decolonial Passage for publishing “Howlin’ Wolf’s Harp”...
Original Poetry: Six Haikus for America
Just in time for #NationalPoetryMonth, the amazing team at Exterminating Angel Press has dropped the...
Introducing “Rhapsodies in Blue”
Just in time to properly celebrate National Poetry Month, my second collection, Rhapsodies in Blue, is now...
Original Poem: Charles Mingus’s Memento
It remains a blessing for this writer to find publications that “get” him –and what...
Gary Rossington: The Man in The Band
And another guitarist who left us with indelible solos from the ’70s gone. Gary Rossington...
Why Wayne Shorter Matters
Wayne Shorter is, for my money, possibly the most underrated genius in any genre of music....
David Lindley: Jackson Browne’s Right Hand Man
One of the more unheralded “guy behind the guy” guys, David Lindley did plenty of...
I’ll See You on the Dark Side of the Moon: Rock Music’s Apex at 50
It doesn’t matter whether Pink Floyd’s masterpiece is the best rock album of all time...