From 2015 through 2020, a personal research project included my reading dozens of jazz books and related media. They included mainstays such as the massive reference The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, Ben Ratliff's excellent interview collection The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music, the off-shore perspectives of Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan and the...
Everybody's best friend. Okay, so not everyone loves dogs. But find yourself buried in an avalanche and it will be a dog that sniffs you out. The last person found alive after the World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11 was sniffed out by a rescue dog. Guide dogs helped lead their blind owners to safety from the...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Journal Entry—A Letter to Franz Schubert. Date Unknown, but in the Year of Their Lord 1961, in a Strange Place Called the Village Vanguard, New York City.
My dearest Franz,
I write to you from a realm so alien, so far beyond the bounds of our Viennese parlors and candlelit salons, that I scarce know how to frame my thoughts.
When one is making a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree in California—even by Zoom call—you must be careful about protecting your eyes from the blinding sunlight and keep your cap on to cover your brain. Listening to the music of Lara Somogyi from her album...
The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward spread the sounds that we know as the blues and jazz across the country.
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