The Jazz File: Happy Music…or not.
Interesting couple of albums have taken over my system for the past few months. There’s something of a unified thread […]
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Johnny Smith – Gentleman Guitarist
Johnny Smith came on the scene in New York in the late 1940s, after a stint in the Army, where […]
The Jazz File: My Grammy Picks
Some of you are probably thinking, “Why would a self-respecting jazz writer give a rat’s rear about the Grammy Awards?” […]
The Jazz File
December is here, the holiday season…a time for wanton acts of kindness, endless shopping, and (of course) every music critics’ […]
Opus 3 Releases Maria Winther’s Dreamsville in Super Audio CD Surround Sound
Audiophile label Opus 3 Records in Sweden continues to release albums in Super Audio CD Surround Sound. In their latest […]
The Jazz File: William Parker, Part 2: A Three and a Four…
Bob’s Pink Cadillac Bob’s Pink Cadillac, credited to the “William Parker Clarinet Trio”, features sidemen not normally associated with Parker’s […]
The Jazz File: Trying Something New
Frequent readers of this column (and there may be 3 or 4 of you out there by now) have probably […]
Transcendent Sound Grounded Grid Preamplifier
Specifications: Harmonic Distortion: Less than .02% at 2 volts RMS out. Signal to Noise Ratio: Greater than 93 dB. Bandwidth: […]
The Jazz File: William Parker, Part 1: A One and a Two…
William Parker is one of the strongest personalities in avant-garde jazz today, both musically and otherwise. Having spent the ‘80s […]
An Audio Vacation
I spent the first six months of 2006 looking forward to summer vacation from teaching. Normally, this isn’t the case, […]