My overarching question is this: Can any of these figures articulate a set of principles that they've...
Barney Quick
Barney Quick writes for various magazines and website, plays jazz guitar in various configurations, and teaches jazz history and rock and roll history at Indiana University. He blogs at Late in the Day and writes longer essays at Precipice, his Substack newsletter.
I didn’t say “debating.” I gave it some thought. Arguing is a broader category. True, much of...
Jeff Beck was just the way a bloke from Wallington whose imagination was set on fire by...
The inclusion of a bowl of cereal doused with milk in the breakfast ritual as practiced in...
Professors Marvel and Hill didn't have the luxury of contemplating their new destinies in solitude. All the...
Is it too much to ask that perhaps we could do some swayin' to records playin' and...
To earn wisdom, you have to have an acquaintance with foolishness, You have to have harbored some...
“Painter John Strickland” was a necessary characterization to get the first paragraph dealt with, but let me...
The Rhythm changes is just one contrafact that gave us our treasure trove of pop and jazz...
I blow hot and cold on whether rock and roll has been, on balance, a force for...
I am skittish about getting involved anywhere at this point. The pitfalls are myriad and various. So...
How is this happening? Is seeking happiness appropriate in an age of cataclysmic war? These questions are...
Biden's overall choice of policies to prioritize for focus is hampering his administration from being even more...
