Evans, his pain, and the music: “I have always preferred playing without an audience.”

1966–when Paul Simon mistook Jeff for Art and gave away that unforgettable, bouncy ‘Red Rubber Ball’.

On Holocaust Day we remember the incomprehensible persecution suffered by Moldovan/Polish/Russian Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996) at the hands of both the Nazis and the Soviets.

A fetching beauty with a catchy rock song in a first-rate jazz context. What more could one ask for?
Saxophonist Tim Ries toured extensively with The Stones, who sponsored his very fine, very varied Rolling Stones Project.

It’s Passover! Let’s sing a song of slavery!
Paul Robeson brought the Spiritual to the concert hall, singing the suffering and indignity of his own father in slavery. A remarkable life any standards.

Most of the little I understand of the female psyche I’ve learned from Joni Mitchell.

This is what the kids call, I believe, a “mind-fuck.”
You hear it, you see it, but you can’t believe it.

Who da daddy of rap?
Who da grandaddy?