Freddie Hubbard: An Appreciation
The next sentence is predictable as it is inevitable: Freddie Hubbard, had he happened to die at some point in the late (or even mid-) ‘60s, would have been forever…
The next sentence is predictable as it is inevitable: Freddie Hubbard, had he happened to die at some point in the late (or even mid-) ‘60s, would have been forever…
"It doesn’t crumb, and I don’t like fragments of our Lord scattering all over the floor." THE REV. BOB DIETEL, about communion wafers manufactured by the Cavenaugh Company in…
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Roger Cohen, again. One needs to be either peculiarly observant or exceedingly self-absorbed to behold, in another's writing, traces of one's own. But for the second time in one…
A life well spent? That's the goal, isn't it? For any of us. Not necessarily to be enshrined in a newspaper's obituary (although few people would protest such a proposition),…