The Famous Door
His Name Was Albert Ayler
Hendricks and Ross: Doodlin' Again
Good-Bye to the Big Man
The Largeness of Sonny Rollins
The web, in the way it favors the short form, tends to disserve artists who work on a large scale, such as the jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, whose epic improvisations involve the sustained development of complex ideas over time. A master of the big statement, Rollins is not called the jazz colossus for nothing. READ MORE >>
The Famous Door: Blake Shelton's Cowardly Ass
“I ain’t trying to start no fight, but I’ll finish one every time”—so crows the country star Blake Shelton in the song that won the first-ever prize for Best Web Video at the CMT Music Awards, broadcast from Nashville this Wednesday evening. Shelton is a coward, and I’m saying that not to pick a fight with him, but to defend country music fans from his award-winning song’s assault on their freedom of individual expression. READ MORE >>
