Author: Jerry Bowles

Major props to young Master Salvage for his outstanding work attending to the front page over the past couple of weeks while I attended to some pressing matters of commerce. …

The picture was taken about 11 am on November 22, 1963 in the newsroom of The Parthenon, the student newspaper of Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va.  The young man, barely recognizable to me…

Mark Turner said it best, as reported by Do the Math: Fuck those motherfuckers who don’t give it up for Michael Brecker. [youtube]GRFMG5C2PPA[/youtube]  

Because I find myself suddenly and inexplicably old I will not be attending the great two-band, no waiting show at the Bowery Poetry Club this Sunday night, featuring Industrial Jazz…

For those of you who were insufficiently cheered by Florida’s decisive surge over the Ohio State football factory, here’s something that should help.  Our friends at Naxos will  release on…

Well, I see Chamber Music America is having its annual conference in the Center of the Universe this week, beginning on Thursday.  I wasn’t invited this year.  Last year, Alex…

Back in July, nine students associated with AAIR, the independent radio station of London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture, spent several days recording natural and man-made sounds to create an extensive…

Mark Swed wrangled himself a trip to Budapest and came back with a brilliant piece on the world that shaped György Kurtág.

From the CBC: Toronto composer James Rolfe has won the $7,500 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his contemporary work raW, the Canada Council for the Arts announced Thursday.…

Our friend Marco Antonio Mazzini is inviting all clarinetists to participate in the first “Musical Marathon – Prize for Most Creative Interpretation” contest that will take place on the web, from January…