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A nice surprise awaited me the other morning when finishing up the latest Bernie book by Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown. Good grief…
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Nice to see Eubie Blake in the New York Times! John McWhorter uses the recent release of When Broadway Was Black by Caseen Gaines for a good think piece…
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This week three wonderful musicians celebrated their 80th birthday. One of the more unique interviews on DTM is the one with Gavin Bryars. Amazing…
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Political pundit Matthew Yglesias has been reading early John le Carré. I don’t traffic in these circles, but from wherever I sit over here in jazz land…
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Birdland: Tonight through Saturday, two sets a night, the Billy Hart quartet with Mark Turner, Ben Street, and myself. Sets are at 7 and 9:30 tonight…
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Last fall, Sarah Deming and Lesley Garrison started a studio together in Gowanus, Brooklyn: Knockout Pilates. Pilates is a wonderful practice done by…
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I just contributed to the fundraiser for the great drummer Victor Lewis, who is “suffering from a neurological issue that has lost him the use of his…
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Amusing digital art by Julio Blazquez Cea: Next week Thursday I’ll be in Vinnie Sperrazza’s trio with Michael Formanek at Bar Lunatico. On Monday the…
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Just landed in Germany for a trio tour with Eva Klesse and Andreas Lang Wednesday, January 4th: Fat-Jazz Urban-Exchange, Hamburg Thursday: LOFT Köln…
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December 2022

New article from me in The Nation: "The Butler Didn't Do It!" On Agatha Christie, KNIVES OUT, and GLASS ONION. Sincere thanks to my extraordinary editor…
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This is the 200th edition of Transitional Technology. At this point my Substack is doing much better than my Wordpress site Do the Math site in terms of…
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Next week: UMBRIA JAZZ (Winter session at Orvieto) A few years ago I premiered Bud Powell in the 21st Century with the Umbria Jazz Orchestra — the…
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