The Stash Dauber

Hadn't done one of these in a minute. Decided to take an evening off from doing political stuff to take in a show in Dallas, where two o...

Photo by Andrew Blackstein. It's hard to believe now how controversial Teo Macero's editing on Miles Davis'  late '60s-earl...

You might think that no thread could possibly connect surf music, John Zorn , and Northern Ohio. But you’d be wrong. Start with the hijaz sc...

I simply adore jazz piano records. And I have three new ones to edify and amaze me this month. Like Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Heather ...

Lisa Cameron  is one of my favorite musicians on Earth, one whose work exemplifies electroacoustic improvisation at its finest. With a style...

Improvisation is ephemeral, and attempts to document it often fail because they neglect to take this into account. When what is presented is...

Photo by Jacob Garchik. The cognitive scientist David Huron  has written that people's emotional reactions to music are driven by our ex...