DIFFERENT DRUMMERS

There’s a jazz act I like, Portico Quartet. Last time I saw them, a year ago, their set was a masterclass in interplay based on musicians listening and responding to one another to take a shared experience further than it would otherwise have gone. Which is the distinction between live and recorded music, fundamentally. . . . → Read More: DIFFERENT DRUMMERS

SHAKE IT UP

One of the things you’ll hear about Orson Welles was how he lived his career backwards. From making Citizen Kane in his twenties to scraping a living doing sherry commercials and voices for cartoon robots towards the end of his life. Never mind for now that maybe he really learned his truest love was . . . → Read More: SHAKE IT UP