“Improvising Jazz” by Jerry Coker

Mr. Coker’s title suggests action. Or a photograph. Improvising. Here are two definitions.1 The first is to make something with … More

Bookshelf: For Guitar Players Only Tommy Tedesco

The cover photo beckons like some mysterious relative who lived an entirely different life than anyone else in the family. … More

In 1981 I played rhythm guitar in a band called Rhythm Ace. I was thirty-one. The other guys in the … More

In 1969 when I was a freshman in college I used to visit my grandmother who lived just outside the … More

The Poetry of Soul edited by A.X. NicholasBantam Books 1971 A collection of songs chosen by Mr. Nicholas to demonstrate … More

When my wife and I were living in Jamaica Plain in the early 1980’s there was a family on our … More

Between my junior and senior year in high school I went with some friends to the Newport Folk Festival. According … More

I attended Wesleyan University 1989-91. I was enrolled in the Music MA program, not under ethnomusicology, but rather a loosely … More

Below, looking through the lens of exploring the present use of the term anti-racist, is an interpretation of a passage … More

In ’79 I was hired to play in a country band. In the beginning I played bass. Piano, bass, drums, … More