Category Archives: Reviews & Commentary
Un-Blue Jazz: Remembering Dave Brubeck
For me the two coolest instrumentals to ever make the pop charts are “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MG’s. They’ve always been a pair for me, bookends, so I’ve thought … Continue reading
Takers, Makers, and the Fiscal Cliff
No person, no organization, is without its paradoxes and contradictions. In fact, these often make the person, the organization, more interesting and intriguing. By this standard—though our President and his party have plenty of paradox and contradiction about them—few persons … Continue reading
Grow Up and Honor Those Who Couldn’t
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, I, like so many Americans, have been following as many conversations as I could about violence and gun control, the trauma of a community and the tragedy of young lives lost. … Continue reading →