Newt, Not The Onion
Sean MurphySomeone has needed to pull a Josey Wales on Newt Gingrich for a very long...
Mozart and Mahler, Klezmer Style Courtesy of Uri Caine
I’ve been holding on to these clips for a while, but today, on the one...
Curiosity Can’t Kill The Cat or, Art Becomes Life*
I. You Can’t Go Home Again, someone once wrote And he was wrong. Of course...
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)
Considering that the only constant within King Crimson was change, the quality of their early...
14 Songs For Turning 41
To know the man, get to know his music. (Or, to paraphrase Al Pacino in...
Progressive Rock With a Capital P: Traffic’s ‘John Barleycorn Must Die’
One difficulty with talking intelligently about much of the amazing music made in the ‘70s...
Robert Johnson: The Centennial of an American Genius
Does any single figure loom as large over an art form as Robert Johnson?...
What’s It All About, Then? Part Four: Jazz, Featuring McCoy Tyner
It occurs to me that I’ve said little, on the record, about McCoy Tyner. This...
Props on Pops (Revisited)
I have written more than once about my mother (here and here) but I haven’t...
No One Has Ever Done Anything as Well as John Coltrane Played the Saxophone (Revisited)
The question isn’t, really, about who might be interested in this documentary; it is about...