World of Abstract Dreams

It's about that time again: time for another installment of a recent Magic Jukebox shuffled playlist! It's been about a year and a ...

I have almost all the stuff in the 4-CD Louis Armstrong box set Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934 on other discs, but it...

Reading List 2025-03-31: *Threadgill, Henry, and Brent Hayes Edwards. Easily Slip into Another World (started) *Williams, Tad. The Burning M...

Henry Threadgill writes about John Gilmore: He was playing some very advanced harmonic and rhythmic information on the saxophone. His rhythm...

Weird of Mouth consists of improvisations from the trio of  Mette Rasmussen , Ches Smith , and Craig Taborn ... Smith and Taborn I was fami...

Reading List 2025-03-24: *Eco, Umberto. Confessions of a Young Novelist (started) *Lowe, Allen. Turn Me Loose White Man, or, Appropriating C...

The most well-known version of "Dark Star" has to be the first one the Grateful Dead released, on Live/Dead ... and that really w...