Jazz saxophone and flute giant James Moody has been around seemingly forever and never slowed down, but yesterday pancreatic cancer finally ended a long and distinguished career at the age of 85. He was a key member of Dizzy Gillespie bands going back to the 1940s (Diz once remarked, “Playing with James Moody is like playing with a continuation of [...]
by Mark Saleski I just finished reading Patti Smith‘s memoir of her life and connection with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. It was pretty inspiring stuff. Two wild kids (wild in their own way) whose happy collision in New York City turned into a lasting and productive friendship. Productive? Yeah, I don’t mean this in the empty capitalist citizenry way — a [...]
Photograph by Amy Dey by Nick DeRiso A radiant uncertainty runs through “Maybe,” Emily Hearn’s song about the confusion and memorable pain of a lonely young heart. OK, there’s a girl, and there’s a guy, and the guy won’t give her the time of day. This, we’ve heard before. But Hearn, singing with an oaken longing reminescent of Patty Griffin [...]
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