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ECM Book Now Available Worldwide!
I am thrilled to announce that my book, Between Sound and Space: An ECM Records Primer, is now officially available for purchase! Colombian publisher Rey Naranjo and I spent years putting this...
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For those of you with Spotify, my editor and I have compiled a playlist to accompany every review in my new book, Between Sound and Space: An ECM Records Primer. Click here to access it.
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ECM Book Playlist: Now on TIDAL
Many thanks to longtime reader Jamie for making a TIDAL version of the playlist associated with my new book, Between Sound and Space: An ECM Records Primer. Click the logo below to be taken directly to...
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New Book of Interest!
For those who have an interest in the legalities of the popular music industry, look no further than this indispensible book on the Music Modernization Act (MMA), one of the most important pieces of...
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Keith Jarrett: A Biography
The late Ian Carr’s Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music long stood as the most complete portrait of its subject, who turns 76 this month. Being a product of 1991, however, the book begged a companion...
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First Review of My Book
The first review of my book, Between Sound and Space: An ECM Records Primer, is available over at JazzViews. Click the cover below to read on.
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Interview with Phil Freeman
I recently conducted an interview with music critic and author Phil Freeman for All About Jazz. Freeman has some of the sharpest ears out there—and a way with words to hone them. Interested readers...
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Special Announcement!
I am thrilled to announce that my book, Between Sound and Space: An ECM Records Primer, is at last available on Amazon! Those of you who have followed me for any portion of this journey know how much...
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Ana Reyes: The House in the Pines (Book Review)
It was as if they had opened a valve and all the pain, fear, and anger of those days had issued from their chests and rolled onto the street, rising into a terrible shout to the thick black clouds...
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Paul Griffiths: Mr. Beethoven (Book Review)
If fiction is the art of revivification, then let Mr. Beethoven be one of the most self-aware products of its wonders. The 2021 novel from Paul Griffiths grafts archival leaves to branches of...
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Brian Evenson: Father of Lies (Book Review)
In chapter 3 of Genesis, Satan makes his first cameo. By that point, God has commanded Adam to eat freely of every tree in the garden, with one proviso: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and...
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BIRD by Christina Rauh Fishburne (Book Review)
Between the covers of BIRD, Christina Rauh Fishburne offers a chapbook of moving images and emotional tableaux using words as her pigment and a keen sense of observation as her brush. Her prose poems...
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Brian Evenson: The Open Curtain (Book Review)
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,lest his deeds should be reproved.–John 3:20 Rudd is a fractured boy. Like a mirror thrown to the ground and glued back...
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Kimberly Nguyen: Here I am Burn Me (Book Review)
to name something isto know it So writes Kimberly Nguyen in the opening poem of her visceral collection, Here I Am Burn Me. And yet, what becomes increasingly clear, page after blood-rimmed page, is...
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K. T. Nguyen: You Know What You Did (Book Review)
Little-t “trauma” operates by a different MO from big-T “Trauma.” Throughout You Know What You Did, the debut thriller from K. T. Nguyen, we are pulled between the two in a narrative balancing act of...
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Juan Hitters: Bar Italia (Book Review)
In his 1969 novella, Il castello dei destini incrociati (The Castle of Crossed Destinies), Italo Calvino presents a series of vignettes introduced by a nameless narrator who finds himself, after...
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New Book
Dear readers: I appreciate your patience as I navigate some life changes (some negative, ultimately positive), which have taken much of my time away from listening and reviewing. I do hope to return...
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