Jazz
6 stories
Steinway artist Joja Wendt plays boogie-woogie & Beethoven (with flying bumblebees in between)
The German pianist who swings from boogie-woogie to Beethoven, in Manila for Steinway & Sons’ The Artistry in Modern Precision at PGA Cars.
A city where the lights never go out
Two Japans in one trip: ninja houses and the record bins of Akihabara, then the long silence of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima.
Life, death and all that jazz
Mingus and Coltrane, Harry’s Bar at Boat Quay, and a goodbye to drummer Bob Barreto. Life may be short, but the beats are infinite.
Questions 67 and 68
Why do noontime hosts say happy viewing, why do movie goons wear leather in this heat, and what does Hollaback Girl actually mean?
The brats of Beat
Kerouac with Steve Allen on piano, Ginsberg howling, Burroughs on a hip-hop record. The spoken-word albums of the Beats, for freaky times.
Jaco Pastorius and the music of the spheres
The first career-spanning Jaco Pastorius anthology arrives, and the bassist who reinvented the instrument gets the retrospective he was owed.