May the hardest working man in show business finally rest in peace. Driving home from Boston yesterday, my wife Rachel and I cranked up James Brown on the stereo, listening to Love Power Peace – Live at the Olympia, Paris 1971. An incredible set, James Brown at his most elemental, just when Bootsy Collins first [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Music Fictions
Saturday, December 23, 2006
I just finished reading Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet, his rock and roll take on the Orpheus myth. While I am a huge Rushdie fan (Satanic Verses, Midnight’s Children, and The Moor’s Last Sigh all killed me, as did his wonderfully literary children’s book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories) this novel was [...]
Behearer Be Heard
Friday, December 8, 2006
The positive fallout from the “great jazz of the 70’s and 80’s” discussion continues to accumulate. It got mainstream coverage in Nate Chinen’s article in the NY Times two days ago, and a new wiki site has been launched compiling all the various contributions, behearer.com. This is a pretty amazing resource, and while most of [...]
