“Jazz music is America’s past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.
Category: Music
“In the Mood”
Insanity, nuttiness, absurdities….you know – what you see and maybe, unfortunately, experience about anytime you step out of your cocoon called home and venture out
Magnificent Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was one of the few composers who have encapsulated the dilemma of being a 20th-century creative artist quite as poignantly as Prokofiev.
Do You Like Our Arrowheads?
When I was in my 20’s, in what seems to be a different lifetime ago, I worked in the oil industry. I was what was
Remarkable Disinclinations
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to
Saturday Afternoon Vibes
There’s already a traffic issue heading up to Wyoming to get in line with the other 600 thousand or so for the eclipse, so we
Dispatches from the Asylum 