Number 71. Not a ringer, although you would not be blamed for thinking so. People sometimes ask me, "What music are you listening to?" or "What kind of music do…
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In more or less the order I heard them. Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Orchestra: Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions 1976 (Dark Tree) Tapscott was an inspired pianist…
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People in the U.S. are really into hating jazz. Remember when a bunch of us got really cranky about that Buzzfeed “What’s the deal with jazz?” thing? (Yeah, no, I’m…
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Sometimes when my buddy Bruce Lee Gallanter, proprietor of my favorite extant NYC record store, Downtown Music Gallery, is compiling an annual best-of feature for his newsletter, he asks me…
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Tadashi Okuno and Rin Takanishi (in mirror), Like Someone In Love, 2014, directed by Abbas Kiarostami Songs are a form of storytelling, so it stands to reason that most great…
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"Butterball" Paige and his Bigsby guitar, at left, with Ernest Tubb to Paige's left. Over the past couple of months I've been working with my friends at Retrofret Vintage Guitars,…
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