التصنيف: My back pages
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Order Up… Burnt CDs for Five.
John Shiurba JazzizMay 1999 Bay Area guitarist and free-improvisor John Shiurba hit upon the idea of his new Limited Sedition record label soon after buying a CD burner last year: "I just wanted to put out CDs of my music, and music that I think is worthy," he explains. "But the idea of shopping tapes…
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Kenny Kirkland’s Unanswered Promise.
Kenny Kirkland JazzizFebruary 1999 Word leaked over the Internet before any official sources were heard. But in the end, the stories were the same: Pianist Kenny Kirkland was found dead in his Queens home on Friday, November 13. He was 43. At press time, no apparent cause of death was revealed.* Kirkland came of…
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Swing shift.
Sometimes the road ahead is simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time…and knowing the right people. Back in the spring of 2000, with my illustrious public-relations career at an impasse after BMG Classics eliminated almost everyone in the department, I got an interesting offer from Larry Blumenfeld, then the…
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My back pages: Tri-Centric Modelling: Past, Present and Future.
Tri-Centric Modelling: Past, Present and Future(Le) Poisson Rouge/Issue Project RoomNew York City, USAThe Wire, September 2010 There was surely one burning question on the minds of the audience who packed the chic New York City nightclub (Le) Poisson Rouge to capacity on a Friday night for the first evening of Tri-Centric Modelling: Past, Present and…
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My back pages: Diamonds in the Dark.
Album review: Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles: Diamonds in the DarkSugar Hill Records, 2007Time Out New York, June 7–13, 2007Five stars (out of five) Had Boston-based singer Sarah Borges come along in the mid-1960s, she surely would have been roped into the Capitol stable alongside like-minded mavericks such as Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and…
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My back pages.
All over my apartment, in boxes and in piles, are loose clippings and magazines with articles I've written that, for one reason or another, don't exist on the web. For some time now I've been toying with the idea of posting at least some of those pieces here, partly because it's a way of archiving…