Nina Simone's voice stops time. I've been living with her 1965 performance of "Sinnerman" these past few days, and each...
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I was seventeen when I first heard Nina Simone's "Four Women," and the force of it stopped me cold in my parents' clutte...
The Weight of Silence: Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel There's a single piano note that hangs in the air like morning mis...
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've been looping Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool this week, and I'm struck by how age has changed everything about this...
I first heard Coltrane's A Love Supreme during a rain-soaked November evening, the kind where the world feels suspended...