Tag Archives: Ralph Ellison
A Radio Show on the Blues
“SOMETHING OLD, NEW, BORROWED…BLUE” The blues is America’s most fundamental roots music, still not only the bedrock of most of its popular music—rock, jazz, pop, soul, and more—but continuing to exert an even more powerful influence on world music. “Something Old, New, … Continue reading
Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman
Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness. Awkward lyricism under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading →