There's a moment about four minutes into Makaya McCraven's "In These Times" where everything clicks. The drums—his drums...
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The first note hit like a question mark hanging in the smoky air of the Blue Note last night. A tenor sax, breathy and d...
The trembling reverb at the edge of Bill Frisell's guitar sounds like memory itself—soft, uncertain, impossibly tender....
I still think about the first time I heard Coltrane's A Love Supreme on a rainy afternoon in a café somewhere in New Yor...
I still remember the first time I heard Coltrane's A Love Supreme—I was nineteen, sitting cross-legged on a dorm room fl...
Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" at Sunrise There's a moment forty seconds into "Acknowledgement" where the bass becomes a pr...
The strings enter first—measured, almost cautious—before the piano arrives like someone finally ready to speak after yea...
There's a moment in Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" where the tenor saxophone reaches so high that it ceases to be music and...
Nina Simone's voice stops time. I've been living with her 1965 performance of "Sinnerman" these past few days, and each...
There's a moment about forty seconds into Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" where the saxophone becomes something more than an...
Listened to Coltrane's A Love Supreme again last night. Late. Lights off. Nothing but the speakers and the dark. Forty y...
I first heard Coltrane's A Love Supreme in my twenties, sprawled across a threadbare dorm room carpet, headphones pressi...
I first heard Coltrane's A Love Supreme during a rain-soaked November evening, the kind where the world feels suspended...
The first time I heard Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," I wasn't ready for it. The opening gong felt like a door opening to...