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Open The Door! 20 Mar 2013 | 12:38 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Virago Modern Classics series so consistently pleases me that it makes the well of the world's good books seem quite bottomless. Part, though...
My Jazz Weekend 30 Jan 2012 | 05:30 pm
I have all these records and from time to time I feel I should justify that by listening to them. Accordingly, I attacked the jazz shelf, reaching not for the canon, but rather for the sentimental fav...
Air Above Mountains 11 Nov 2010 | 05:29 am
One of my formative musical experiences was seeing a Cecil Taylor solo piano performance when I was 17 (in Helsinki,no less!). There was no possibility of following individual notes or harmonies in th...
Notes on London Review of Books, February 3, 2005 (Volume 27, Number 3) 1 Nov 2010 | 06:01 am
Linda Colley on N.A.M Rodger: the superiority of British Sea Power is a mid-19th century construction, not consistently supported by the actual history of the preceding three centuries. Joyce’s “Step...
Comedians and Hoofers 25 Feb 2010 | 03:13 am
Rainy February Monday nights are hard to salvage, but all travel should be as painless as a fast 3 train to Bergen Street and the two block walk to Freddy's Backroom. Freddy's is ordinarily a bastion ...
Hip and Well Read 27 Sep 2009 | 06:57 am
It is no secret that performances attended via advance tickets and weeks of anticipation are often less exciting than those attended on the spur of the moment. As such, the AC/DC show at the Meadowlan...
Catafalque and Quincunx 4 Jun 2009 | 12:37 am
For me and my friends, and presumably others of that approximate generation, an essential part of the mid-70s/mid-teenage quasi-counterculture canon was the illustrated writing of Edward Gorey. Though...
Peripatetic 2 Jun 2009 | 03:53 pm
On a recent fine May midday, I set out to walk a pleasant two miles to Mazzotti Music to pick up a fixed guitar amp and found the usual plethora of books that seem to line my path everywhere. To begin...
Devil In De-Tails 31 May 2009 | 05:34 am
I stopped by Williamsburg's excellent bookstore Spoonbill & Sugartown a couple of evenings ago, picking up Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe and E.H. Gombrich's A Little History Of The World. Gombri...
What Are You Listening To Lately? 21 May 2009 | 02:05 pm
Regrettably, few questions make me draw a complete blank more effectively than "what have you been listening to?" despite, or because of, the fact that I am listening to music more or less constantly ...
