Like that first morning pot of coffee, you just gotta have your java and keep filling it up to the brim. There’s no reason to stop pouring when the enjoyment level is so high. And thus we have the magnetic Sandra Marlowe’s new release, “The Heart Always Remembers,” in which her fount of energy and... Continue Reading →
All about those clean sounds and so melodically driven - Jason Fabus’s latest CD “Live at Barley Forge” achieves its goal to honor the laid-back West Coast vibe. Though leader and sax player Fabus veered off early in his career to play for Disney theme parks, the experience has strongly informed his musical identity as... Continue Reading →
As a musically ambitious paean to honor the recent Black lives taken (and the joy of those lives), composer and pianist Casey Heyo has let the music bleed through every crack of her psyche in the new release called “Raw Session for the Names Remembered.” Heyo has taken a very complicated, emotional issue and transformed... Continue Reading →
Meyer (we only learn his first name deeper into the book) is filled with dread…and jazz. A modern, midlife anti-hero who has a complicated, messed-up family situation, Meyer (a divorced alto sax musician) grapples with the meaning of life while ruminating over his many mistakes. Time and again, though, his most cherished friendships save him:... Continue Reading →
God bless the power of Twitter. Really. I thought I was too old and too un-hip to use it. But once I started, I began to see its incredible usefulness. I met a pretty cool guy on it. He’s the host of a jazz radio show at Stony Brook University in New York. George Rudolph,... Continue Reading →
Lawrence Bush, a many-times-over author and the editor of the progressive website/magazine “Jewish Currents”, has an octopus-like curiosity and a deep reach into the uncountable facets of Jewish life and sensibility. Among the topics he has written on are the Jewish Resistance, showbiz, racism and Apartheid, poetry, Communism and of course, American politics. Insisting he... Continue Reading →
Inspirational as a Sunrise! Your First Writer's Conference: How to Survive and Thrive If I knew then what I know now…I would have had a much better experience at my first writer’s conference. Though I didn’t make any fatal mistakes, it would have been great to have these tips under my belt when I walked... Continue Reading →
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