Chet Baker, The Legendary Riverside Albums | Review
Chet Chat It was early October and I was on vacation in Europe when, through the wonders of modern technology (a.k.a. my smartphone), I learned that Craft Recordings would be [...]
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First Day Photo Tour with Paul | AXPONA 2019
by Paul Elliott Man, this is a big show. So much going on, and just deciding what to do first could take half a day. One can get educated with the any seminars and [...]
Jimmy Smith: DVL Album of the Month for April
This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the [...]
DVL Audio Album of the Month for July – Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio
This is the first in a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging [...]
Lyn Stanley, Potions and Interludes on Analog Tape | Review
The problem with luxury has nothing to do with the expense. It’s us. Our dirty, sad, undeserving selves. Deep down, many of us just don’t believe we deserve nice [...]
Lyn Stanley: The Audiophile’s Sultry Songbird
By John Stancavage Six years ago, Lyn Stanley was a retired marketing executive wondering if she could pass muster for her church choir. Today, she’s an internationally [...]
The Vinyl Grouch: Lord Classic, Sophia Pfister, Miles & Glasper, Cornelius
By Ken Micallef An infrequent communiqué on the best and worst in new and reissued vinyl titles from around the globe… Lord Classic Lord Classic represent a long lost [...]
Tokyo record shops and disappearing jazz joints
This is another post that focuses on my continuing obsession with analog, record shops, and Japan in general. I stumbled across these videos chronicling some of the best [...]
Music, Mind and Meaning: A Day at the Peabody Institute
I’m fairly certain it’s common knowledge by now that I spent about a decade in college. In my defense, a good chunk of that time was spent in graduate school. [...]
Music, Mind and Meaning
About a million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the mega-continent, I was a PhD student at the University of Maryland, studying Philosophy. Yes, Philosophy. And no, I had no [...]
