Paul is, you know, sentient, present and accounted for, more or less.
Has written widely on music and literature, mostly, in addition to lengthy stints as a newspaper and magazine editor and reporter in New York, Los Angeles (hell, yeah), San Francisco and Monterey. Currently teaches journalism in San Francisco and contributes to the S.F. Chronicle Book Review section and other outlets, as well as thread-ending comments to No Depression.
Youth must be served, and age must be honored. This year’s Monterey Jazz Festival managed to do both, with admirable ambition, and demographic and musical diversity that engaged without pandering. Twenty-five year old vocal wunderkind Cecile McLorin Salvant opened Friday night […]
Carnegie Hall, 1963
Originally recorded in New Orleans in 1949 for Cosimo Matassa’s J & M Recording Studio. Matassa died last week.