Butch Morris 30 Jan 2013 | 11:26 pm

Remembering Butch Morris for newyorker.com.

Broken Bottle Brass Heroes 20 Jan 2013 | 04:19 am

Thoughts on two brass heroes from Nathaniel Mackey’s Bass Cathedral. (This is the fourth installment of his ongoing epistolary novel From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. In my opinion...

Ravi Shankar 12 Dec 2012 | 12:00 pm

My appreciation of Ravi Shankar on newyorker.com.

RIP Dave Brubeck 9 Dec 2012 | 05:24 pm

My debut writing for The New Yorker’s website, an appreciation of Dave Brubeck (and Paul Desmond).

Ted Curson RIP 6 Nov 2012 | 02:58 am

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is one of the recordings that changed my life. That 1960 album combined the technical virtuosity of bebop, the raw expressiveness of the blues, and the explorato...

Fall events 3 Sep 2012 | 04:04 pm

Welcome to autumn, joyful listeners. (At least I hope you’re joyful, and I hope you’re listening.) Very excited to announce that my sextet (with Jim Hobbs, Bill Lowe, Mary Halvorson, Ken Filiano, and ...

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Modern Economic Analysis 8 Apr 2012 | 03:08 am

“As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no mann...

Look, Bill Lowe 3 Feb 2012 | 01:41 am

Bill Lowe has had many roles in my life: teacher, mentor, friend, collaborator. Now a new role: the subject of an article I wrote. The first part of what looks to be an extended oral history project i...