Here’s a story. So I’m at my friend house one Sunday and we’re watching football (NFL) and the conversation turns to Barry Sanders (a favourite of mine) and my friend says “Hey … I have his rookie card”? My jaw drops...

I took in the Stevie Winwood/Tom Petty show a few weeks back and was pleasantly surprised by how good Winwood's opening set was. Yes, there were the token new tracks from his recently released "Nine Lives" cd, and the newer songs were quite...

I had someone ask me recently, what does music mean to you, and could you describe it in one word? An interesting question and I actually had to give this some thought, while doing my best to answer the question fairly quickly. My response was music means...

My grandparents must have felt technology marching past when I asked them if their 78 RPM discs contained sounds similar to my parents’ 331/3 RPM LPs. Their shellac recordings appeared primitive and ancient when compared to mom and dad’s vinyl LPs. And...

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Well hello there. Since this is our first time together some introduction is probably necessary. And since this is a blog about the wonder that is Jazz … let’s make it a musical introduction. My first exposure to Jazz was not musical but literary. At...

OK, I'm a fan (small "F") of punk rock, but seriously what's with some of the songs these days that start out melodic and vocally, but then turn into screaming? My throat hurts listening to it, and it seems really disjointed. It's...