Rob Shepherd

Rob Shepherd is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief and head writer of PostGenre. He is a proud member of the Jazz Journalists Association. Rob also contributed to Jazz Speaks, the official blog of The Jazz Gallery and has also so written for All About Jazz and Nextbop. Rob is also a Tax and Estate Planning Attorney and CPA.

Between Beauty and Horror: A Conversation with David Torn

Jean-Michel Basquiat once noted that “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” But such a…

2 weeks ago

Remembering Miles Davis at 100: A Conversation with Marcus Miller

Few figures have shaped the course of modern music as much as Miles Dewey Davis III. His chameleonic career can…

2 weeks ago

Opening Your Heart: A Conversation with DoYeon Kim on ‘Wellspring’

Legend tells that Korea’s plucked zither, the gayageum, was developed sometime in the sixth century by King Gashil of the…

3 weeks ago

Moving as One: A Conversation with Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford

In the Internet Age, we are continually surrounded by words. Statements inundate our every waking moment. But it is rare…

4 weeks ago

Finding Through the Unknown: A Conversation with Willy Rodriguez

Where do we go from here? Though we all exist on a linear timescale, humans have always wondered about the…

1 month ago

Letting the Silence In: A Conversation with Nate Wooley

Louis Armstrong once noted that “music is life itself.” Expression through sound is a requisite and inescapable part of human…

1 month ago

Alone with Nature: A Conversation with Caroline Davis on ‘Fallows’

Historical literature is replete with stories of humans being alone with nature. There is some romanticized notion that when one…

1 month ago

Delight of Process: A Conversation with Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer on ‘They Came Like Swallows’

A duo is more than simply a musical meeting of two minds; it is a convergence of two paths. A…

2 months ago

Slow Absorption: A Conversation with Ned Rothenberg on solo performance and ‘Looms & Legends’

In his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein posits that the fourth dimension, time, can flow differently for different observers. While…

2 months ago

Piecing Together the Cracked Fragments: A Conversation with Bill Orcutt

Something powerful draws humans to create new expressions from the shredded remnants of a past existence. As far back as…

3 months ago