Checking In From Colorado Springs
Sean MurphyNot a bad way to begin the day, up in the mountains of Colorado Springs....
The Budos Is (Almost) Upon Us
Much more on these cats, coming soon. Get ready…
Sungha Jung or, Have You Ever Wondered What You’re Doing With Your Life?
Major hat tip to my man JC for making me aware of this wunderkind named...
Yihla Moja (Revisited)
On Sept. 12, 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police...
Some Sketches of America From a Moving Train (Revisited)
When I first read John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America I...
One Nation Under A Groove or, Burn, Baby! BURN!
Another great moment in American douchebaggery! Despite the fact that we’re on somewhat of a...
The Shock Heard ‘Round the World: ‘Bitches Brew’ Turns 40
Shortly 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...