The Selected Ballads

1 Ives playing Ives - a decidedly lo-fi recording, but Ives brings a certain I-don't-know-what to his own composition ("The Alcot...

Google Maps has been acting up lately, at least for me. One result was this map, improbably superimposing Chelsea over the entire United Sta...

I finished the final volume of Javier Marías' Your Face Tomorrow over the weekend. I'm definitely not done thinking about it, but I...

Perhaps the most interesting find on my most recent visit to the Jazz Record Center was a mid-sixties Sonny Stitt-Bunky Green session calle...

In the last couple weeks, I've had the opportunity to see three of the most exciting contemporary drummers on the New York scene: Tom Ra...

1. So, the Vivian Girls came up right after the Detroit Cobras on my iPod recently.  It was just a single track by each of them, and I real...

Or at least the parts of the Grammys I saw: I know she sings and has her own records and played at the White House, etc, but jazz fans, tr...