ECM Records: Guitarist Mick Goodrick has died, aged 77. Long regarded as a musician’s musician, widely admired for the subtlety of his playing, Goodrick devoted much of his life to teaching, helping […]
Mick Goodrick 1945-2022
Horace Andy Tiny Desk Concert
Today, right here, we get to peek into the decked-out living room of producer Adrian Sherwood’s home and watch masters of reggae playfully chill. We hear Horace Andy’s gruff tenor tell stories […]
RIP MICK GOODRICK
By Pat Metheny I met Mick in the summer of 1973. Along with Gary Burton, we were both on the teaching staff at a summer jazz camp in Normal, IL. Mick and […]
Music in Nazi Germany – The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz
Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide […]
I AM COMING TO GERMANY!
By Roger Waters Dear German fans, I’ve heard there is a rumor going round that I may not be coming to Germany on my European tour, because of opposition from the Israeli […]
“Economics doesn’t matter, only values”
By Tom Fowdy, Oxford University It is worth remembering that in both World War I and World II one of the biggest long term factors contributing to Germany’s defeat was the fact […]
THE LAST WALTZ BLUES JAM
By Bob Margolin The more blues-driven musicians commandeered the instruments at the jam, and played some old favorite songs together, mostly Robert Johnson’s. This sounds like a common scene at open-mic jams […]
Miles Davis by Erin Davis
People think of my dad as the prince of darkness (the name of his 1967 album), a moody performer who turned his back on the audience out of disregard for them. That […]
Robbery at the Drake Hotel
By Jimmy Page On this day in 1973, Led Zeppelin played the last night of Madison Square Garden in New York. This was the final night of our American tour and here […]
The Ten Best Films of All Time
By Paul Schrader I’ve participated in the Sight and Sound ten best list since my critic days in the early 70’s. Every decade the list mutates (and dilutes as the list of […]
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