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Cassandra Wilson memory post: In Henry Threadgill’s radio play “Bedghosts” and reviews
I enjoyed Cassandra Wilson from the moment I heard her voice, and wrote about her music several times, some instances below.
Cassandra Wilson with Marcus Belgrave, photo © Lona Foote
Most fun was working with her in a stellar cast on Hen...
Chamber Music in Chicago
Chamber Music America’s 2026 National Conference was in Chicago last weekend, with some 600 registrants at the Drake Hotel, comprising instrumentalists, composers, performing ensembles, publishers and reps of all the ecosystem around “chamb...
Radical cosmopolitan Jewish Klezmatics
In its 40th year of performance and with a new album, We Were Made for These Times, celebrating freedom, tradition, resistance and solidarity, The Klezmatics dropped in at Chicago’s tony City Winery a couple weeks ago, and I went to see how...
James "Blood" Ulmer on blues, guitar, harmolodics, money: long candid audio
I was lucky to hear classic acoustic blues guitarists — Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Joe Williams, Son House, Sleepy John Estes and Mance Lipson, among others — live at Ann Arbor Blues Festivals in the early 1970s. James “Blood” Ulmer, wh...
Sonny: "Everybody wants love. Are you deserving of love?"
I woke up surprised to learn the appreciation of Sonny Rollins I produced for NPR in 2013 is in today’s broadcast of Morning Edition (May 26, 2026). It includes heartening quotes from the saxophonist at the very peak of musical improvisatio...
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Chicago-born, New York-fired, hometown-returned. Loves music (jazz, blues, new and unusual), fiction ( crime, humor, classics, myths), words, talking, learning.
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