If babies brought us money instead of costing us a small fortune, if they brought us extra time instead of monopolising it all, if they moved our careers ahead instead of stalling them, if they cleaned things instead of always needing to be cleaned, or if they got us good tables at fancy restaurants, there… Read more »
I first began texting Mustafa Mallabozan, a Kurdish musician from Kobany, in 2011 on a language-learning site. Id been using the site officially to learn other languages and unofficially to gather narratives from people in strife-torn Middle Eastern countries. I wasnt eager to learn Kurdish, but I did want first-person accounts of the Syrian war…. Read more »
City life can be hard on a body. The tyranny of the urgent makes us forget the urgency of the deeper need, the cacophany of enterprise, engine, and emergency distracting us from the kind of healing we find so easily in the natural world. This is why parks are so vital to city life, the… Read more »
Christian McBride is a master jazz bassist famed not only for his superb recordings and performances but also for his collaborations with a broad range of musical luminaries. These include Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, James Brown, Sting, Paul McCartney, Carly Simon, Bruce Hornsby,… Read more »
Neil Cowley is a British pianist-composer with a large cult following. He’s sometimes described as the “most heard” pianist on the planet right now because of his piano work on Adele’s recordings. His own compositions, recorded with the aid of the brilliant Neil Cowley Trio, are milestones of innovation and beauty, his piano style moves… Read more »
I try not to use a word like ’wrong,’ But I carry a torch. It burns my hand. I’d like to lay it down In the Promised Land. —Sam Baker in his song “Angel Hair” The first 20 years of the new millennium have witnessed 9/11, the Istanbul explosions of 2003, the New Delhi and… Read more »