The Shock Heard ‘Round the World: ‘Bitches Brew’ Turns 40
Sean MurphyShortly before his death in 1991, Miles Davis remarked “You don’t change music, music changes...
Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’: A Love Letter to the Process of Making Art
In Dostoeyevsky’s Notes From Underground the self-loathing narrator proposes that every man has secrets he...
The Real Life Fable of Charles Mingus and Orval Faubus
On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent...
The Shape of Jazz That Came…
1959 was a watershed year for jazz music (arguably the greatest single year for jazz...
8K? What Can I Say…
People who are a lot smarter and more business-savvy than I am (which admittedly is...
Hey Glenn Beck: What Color Is Your Soul?
First, a confession. I have to admit, when I took the clownish charlatan Glenn Beck...
God Is Dead (Again): Remembering Stevie Ray Vaughan (Revisited)
Eighteen years ago today. First day of classes, junior year. Standing in the bathroom with...
Ten Songs For Myself
Eight years ago today. I’m sure anyone who has lost a parent (or heaven forbid,...
Ten Songs For My Mother
Happy birthday, mama. Stevie Wonder, “You are the Sunshine of my Life”: John Coltrane,...
Here’s The Thing… (Revisited)
In the late summer of 1982, two distinct entities from outer space infiltrated planet earth....