“What is new since the ’70s is a much broader ideological shift in the business world itself, and the way in which it came to approach the jazz world as a result.”
University of California Press
Commentary/Interview: “The Jazz Bubble” — The Arts, Commodified
In what ways are the arts themselves (and our understanding of them) being shaped to serve the ethos of corporate profit-making?
Book Review: The Sad Tenderness of Patrick Modiano’s “Dora Bruder”
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.
Book Review: Director Edgar G. Ulmer — Hollywood’s Master of the Eclectic Led a Doozy of a Life
This is an invaluable volume that can and should be read in conjunction with one’s own Ulmer movie marathon.
Book Review: “The Amazing Bud Powell” — A Disappointing Study of a Jazz Legend
Ramsey’s book on Bud Powell is both a provocative read and a disappointing one. Anyone thinking this will be an illuminating portrait of a jazz master is likely to suffer a serious case of buyer’s remorse.
Book Review: Words From a Bedeviled Life — “Mingus Speaks”
The best parts of this book of interviews come when Charles Mingus or his collaborators talk about the music.