Commentary
Not since Jimi Hendrix had there been such a game-changer for the electric six-string.
Throughout much of his career, Louis Armstrong negotiated a balance between being a “popular” artist and a jazz artist.
I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”
Keats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.
In no way was the recognition that Ira Sullivan received commensurate with his skill.
Are our theaters indifferent, craven, or complicit? Take your pick.
The shared baseline of these conversations is that there are no good old days to go back to. If the cultural sector in the United States returns to the ways things were organized in February, 2020, with all the inequity and unsustainability that implies, we will have failed.
Of all the musicians who were harbingers of change, none has had the long-term influence on young musicians that John Coltrane has had.
This is what I feel can add: the perspective of a native-born son of the Rochester metro; and a view from the bridge through jazz-colored glasses.
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