Brooklyn Reading #9: Good Neighbors/Newark Airport, 1980
Sean MurphyMay 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus...
Victory and Sorrow: Bright Moments from Three Masters (Revisited)
HOW TO TALK ABOUT JAZZ MUSIC? Well, perhaps it’s better to determine how not to...
The Intersection of Art & Innovation, cont’d: Another Conversation with Aram Bajakian
2/21/14: Today we wrapped round two of what I hope will be an ongoing conversation....
The Intersection of Art and Innovation, cont’d: Evolving Models of Music — A Conversation with Jon Madof
2/10/14: On Friday I had the opportunity to do another Google Hangout, part of an...
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before*
Let me tell you a story. It involves a white male born in a steadily...
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength: Rush’s ‘Permanent Waves’ (Revisited)
How unbelievably appropriate that Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980? In virtually every...
My Annual New Year’s Eve Message
As always, it’s a hell of a lot easier to keep these things in perspective...
2014: Time To Die, Part Two
2014: In pace requiescat! Theme video for this annual series (especially instructive for those not...
2014: Time To Die, Part One
2014: In pace requiescat! Theme video for this annual series (especially instructive for those not...
Yusef Lateef: R.I.P., Gentle Giant (One Year Later)
We have lost one of the great, indeed one of the greatest, ones. Yusef Lateef,...