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…
We continue our conversation with Fred Frith (read part one here) with a focus on his work with homemade instruments,…