By the early 1980s, artists had too much freedom to express themselves through sound. The consequences of avant-garde experimentalism were…
Computer scientist Alan Kay once noted, “Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody…
Western music is built around concepts of melody and harmony - the idea that one form of sonic expression should…
Many define “jazz” as the meeting of African rhythms and European harmonies. In a sense, this narrative is accurate -…
Michel Petrucciani exploded onto the North American consciousness in 1982 when he persuaded Charles Lloyd to come out of a…
The process of mining - digging deep into the earth to find an essential material - dates back at least…
Far too often, people tend to compartmentalize and localize matters of concern. However, such an approach minimizes the true scale…
[Editor’s Note: We are excited to have Anthony Dean-Harris join us again for our year-end lists. Anthony is a longtime…
In pieces reviewing a year past, writers often try to find a few narratives and blanketly apply them. The problem…
In the late 1850s, two decades before Thomas Edison’s phonograph, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the first sound…