Remembering and Re-imagining an Era
Danspace Project’s Platform 16: Lost & Found revisits and examines the decades when HIV/AIDS felled so many. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-07
An ideal concert
Anderson and Roe, the piano duo, at the National Gallery in DC, on October 30. And why was it ideal? Well, first, … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-11-07
Otis Redding at the Whisky — Revisited
You can never really have too much Otis Redding. The great R&B singer and songwriter died in a plane crash in 1967, at just 26 years old, and just about everything he recorded … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-11-07
Monday Recommendation: David Baker
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Basically Baker, Vol. 2 (Patois) … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-07
The unstructured room where it happens
In my last post I noted that, when I look at an orchestra’s structure, I don’t see anything that parallels a musician’s practice room. Scaled for an organization, what would a workshop like that look like? … read more
AJBlog: SongWorking Published 2016-11-07
Born in Vail
Vail Dance Festival: Re-Mix NYC performs at City Center, November 3 through 6. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-06
Home is the wanderer
Luciana Souza and I go back a long time. The first posting on this blog was about her. We’d met a year before that, in the summer of 2002. A friend told me that she’d … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-11-07
Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016
Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw’s … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-05
Lit Crawl L.A./ North Hollywood
The other night I ventured out to Los Angeles’s North Hollywood neighborhood for the latest installment of Lit Crawl L.A. This annual night out has been going since 2013, but … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-11-04
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