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And so I gingerly set foot in the shark infested waters of the topic of American and European jazz. The title of this post, “Boston or Berli...

Recently I took part in a back and forth in an online discussion, on the Irish Times music blog, about jazz and its perception in the eyes o...

This is pretty amazing to watch. When the metronomes cannot connect to each other, they get out of synch. As soon as they can connect, or ...

I don't have a mobile phone This is the answer given to numerous people who ask me for my cell phone number, and it has been greeted wit...

In a recent blog post, Ethan Iverson has a good swipe at anyone (and there are many) who wilfully, or stupidly, misunderstand the work of T...

Probably well behind everybody else, I’ve been reading the Thelonious Monk Biography by Robin Kelley And in what amounts to a priva...

This post was prompted by the recent Randy Sandke affair (Peter Hum has a particularly good article on this here ), where Wynton’s name loom...

I can’t believe they’re still arguing over the black/white thing in the US jazz blogosphere at the moment......... The trumpeter Randy Sandk...

To the Village Vanguard to see Kurt Rosenwinkel Me: ‘Hi, I’ve bought three tickets online for tonight – here they are. Thank You’ Door Guy: ...