music of any category (or beyond any category) made by the best practitioners of whatever genre (rock, jazz, blues, country, hip-hop, techno-pop, spiritual, Broadway)
Brutal. Pitiless. Cruel. Unforgiving. Violent. Savage. Tender. Enchanting. Mesmerizing. Lush. Hopeful. These are just some of the emotions and impressions watching this film triggered. Being a huge Nicolas Roeg fan (Performance, Don’t Look Now, Fahrenheit 451) in all his kaleidoscopic contributions to cinema (director, cinematographer) I’m practically flagellating myself that …
Under lockdown I’ve been listening to a lot more of my collection (mp3, CD, LP, streaming) than I have in years. This exercise has compelled me to look back at the earliest formations of my musical tastes, the snatches of song and note from my Fifties-Sixties childhood that would be …
Dragged Across Concrete ~ This was one of the most suspenseful — almost unbearably so — cop movies I’ve seen since The French Connection. And blessed with a soundtrack that, while it doesn’t surpass Don Ellis‘ seminal work on that quintessential 70’s film, did reignite my interest in the O’Jays …
“Hello, my name is….and I’m a Stones-a-holic.” Since age 11, in the month of June 1965 when I was sentenced to 2 weeks’ purgatory at summer camp, I’ve been an unabashed and unashamed Stones groupie and fan. It was while living in an army-style dormitory with, say, 20 other kids …
“Harrowing” and “horrific” are poor substitutes to describe the truncated life & times of jazz legend Chet Baker. Like the book’s subject, James Gavin’s probably-definitive biography is addictive and left me ~ during those times when I had to put it down for more mundane pursuits like work or a doctor’s …
