Dave Brubeck, R.I.P.
Sean MurphyAnother great one goes away. (Read THIS.) We knew he wouldn't live forever, but damned if he didn't try. 91 years old. The first jazz musician to move a million…
All That Glitters is Golden God: Led Zeppelin & The Kennedy Center Award
In case you just jetted in from another planet, a moderately successful band called Led Zeppelin received the Kennedy Center treatment this weekend (more on that HERE). I don't think…
Some “Spiritual Jazz” To Kick off December
While assessing my favorite albums from 2010, HERE, I gave top nod to Lloyd Miller's awesome collaboration with The Heliocentrics. My full review of their self-titled disc can be found HERE. A taste: Lloyd Miller…
Thriller at Thirty
November 30, 1982. That is the date it dropped, and it's quite safe to say the world literally had no idea what was about to hit it upside it's head.…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Four
Build It and They Will Come If it is true that history tends to be written by the winners, it is also a fact that the most successful ideas, in…
Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lies: The Evolution of a Masterpiece
Sonny. The man from Saturn had roots (deep ones) and, for a time, swam in the same waters any striving musician in the early '50s had to dive into. He…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Three
(Re)Defining the High-End Audio Experience For practical purposes, the authentic high-end audio tag applied to products that sold for thousands, not hundreds of dollars. As such, it seems safe to…
Time is on Their Side: The Stones Turn 50 (or, Get Yer Blah-Blahs Out…)
There they go again. I've got nothing. Full marks to any act that is able, much less willing, to strut around the stage after doing it on and off for…
Let Us Give Thanks for the Guitar Solo
Over at Esquire the always reliable Charlie Pierce (some previous blog love for him HERE) opened up a discussion on the best guitar solos. This excercise is equal parts pointless and…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Two
The Day The Music Died Back in 2011 Jon Bon Jovi accused Steve Jobs (in Britain’s Sunday Times) of being “personally responsible for killing the music business.” Unlike his rock…