In Woody Allen’s 1999 film, Sweet and Lowdown, set in the ’30s, Sean Penn plays a fictional jazz guitarist named Emmett Ray. He regards himself the...
“I’m very satisfied when I sing, because I know it makes a difference.” Those are the words of Lisa Sanders, songwriter, vocalist, and musician. I had...
I “heard it on the X.” For real. In 1960, at age 10, our family was moved to Yuma for nearly a year, and three things...
It’s unmistakable. The sound is full and lively. And American as apple pie. Whether you’ve been in the pews on Sunday morning or heard the voices...
It was a typical, sepia-toned autumnal day on that particular Friday in London on November 29th, 2002, with the sky a grey mist across South Kensington....
“Thirty years of running has left me standing with my back to the cold, and it’s left me most days wondering if I’ve ever really learned...
Last year, when Steve Carell departed NBC’s “The Office,” the series that made him a star, an in-house committee was formed to find a suitable replacement...
The first thing you notice is the look. Sitting behind their music stands, the 13 musicians, dressed in black suits and black ties, give off an...
A decade before the Go Gos, the Runaways, and the Bangles were at the top of the musical charts, there was a small cluster of...
