by Christopher Doll The incomparable David Bowie died of liver cancer on January 10, 2016. His twenty-fifth and final studio album, ★(or Blackstar), was released two days prior on January 8, Bowie’s 69th birthday. Reading the deluge of… Read More
The well known scholar John Covach has a remembrance of David Bowie on CNN. Read the article here. Read More
by Mark De Voto Craft with Stravinsky, 1964. Image credit: New York Times I’d like to put in… Read More
By Christopher J. Wells Like many jazz scholars, I spend a lot of time engaging in critical historiography, contemplating the effects of the sedimental layers of ideology that have accumulated over time, and how those striations affect our view of the past. But there’s one moment in my life that… Read More