I finished watching the Netflix series Break It All: A History of Rock in Latin America this week and while I wouldn't say it is breaking any new ground in the art of documentary film, this straightforward series is worth your time. It is the...
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I had the privilege of seeing Tomeka Reid's A Tribute to Ellington project last week at Firehouse 12 in New Haven. The great (genius, one might say) cellist was commissioned.
I was in Chicago last weekend for a conference and so naturally, there was music to see. In Chicago, there's always amazing music to see. Wish I had lived there.
Wow, Big Ears. Just....wow, I saw 31 sets of music in 4 days. I am pretty proud of that. Almost all of these were either full sets or close to full sets. Probably the reason I was able to do this so effectively was, frankly,...
So it's extremely unusual that I don't pick the shows I am going to see. My wife is not a huge music person. She has her favorites and that's why.
I saw the great Jason Moran last weekend at the Berkelee School of Music, performing his Duke Ellington repertoire, which you can read a bit about here. It was astoundingly.
I saw two shows in the last two weeks. The first was our old LGM friend Jason Isbell, doing a solo show at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Little known fact, King Crimson's "Providence," off of Red is titled that because it was recorded during...
I saw Bill Frisell play last week at the Narrows Center in Fall River. It was my 7th Frisell show over the last 30 years and one of the best.
Shows! Shows! Shows! After a long time without seeing a show because I was in Mexico, I've seen three in a week in a half. The most important to me.
Sometimes, readers buy me things. It's amazing. There's a reader--a writer you might have heard of actually--who I will just refer to as their first initial of "P", who sends me a lot of books and may the higher power of your choice bless you...
I don't often read scholarly music books, but I just finished B. Brian Foster's, 2020 book, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life. Foster.
Might as well have a short musical discussion here. Not much going on in the music world right now with the holidays, but we are here. Jimmy Carter probably had.