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Paul Wilner

Monterey Jazz Magic: Quincy Jones, Clint Eastwood and Guitar Master Bill Frisell

Monterey Jazz Magic: Quincy Jones, Clint Eastwood and Guitar Master Bill Frisell

The 59 th Monterey Jazz Festival was an island of sanity in a sea of pain. The headliner for opening night in The Arena was Mr. Quincy Jones (“Q’’ to those of you in the know, and to the fans in his enormous extended family), in a tribute emceed by

Book Review - Stanley Booth’s “Rythm Oil - Music of the American South”

This is a ridiculously good book of music writing – though, that’s an injustice, it’s a book about soul, and life, and America as much or more as it is about “just" music, by the great Stanley Booth. As many of you no doubt know, Booth is also