Live performances are moments captured in time. As fate would have it, the recent appearance of Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn in Carmel, rounding off a three-week tour, took place in the aftermath of a (qualified) bit of good news: […]
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A modest proposal to No Depression readers: If you’re like me, you’re deeply offended by the proliferation of the term “alt-right” to refer to the hate speech of the likes of Steve Bannon, The Breitbart Report and Richard Spencer. I […]
“This is really a drag—and a bore,’’ the doomed jazzster Chet Baker tells director Bruce Weber in Let’s Get Lost, in response to (sympathetic) inquiries about his drug habits. The same could be said of the recent controversy over the decision […]
The 59 th Monterey Jazz Festival was an island of sanity in a sea of pain. The headliner for opening night in The Arena was Mr. Quincy Jones (“Q’’ to those of you in the know, and to the fans in […]
The 58th Monterey Jazz Festival was a cascade of sounds, sights and sensory memories, from big-name performers like Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, to newer names like Commissioned Artist Ambrose Akinmusire, whose composition, “The Forgotten Places,’’ […]
Classic recording of “So What,” from “Kind of Blue,” believed to be the highest-selling jazz album of all time. The same week it was released, Miles was beaten up on Aug. 25, 1959, by a police officer outside “Birdland,” for […]
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