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…
The albums we collectively felt were the best of 2024 (technically from Thanksgiving 2023 to Thanksgiving 2024) show a beautiful…
Western literature has long noted the disconnection between perception and reality. In 1175, French monk Alain de Lille "Do not…