Last night I appeared on GSN’s premiere episode of “World Series of Blackjack,” in which 25 of the world’s top players compete in 30-hand, five-person tournament matches. Each week’s winner gets $10,000, and the ultimate winner earns $100,000. (I finished second in my heat and qualified for a “wild card” episode that airs later this...
Hope RekindledThis past week has given us more hope for our diseased republic than any other time in 50+ years of paying attention. Observing and participating in a long-overdue peaceful uprising, occupying the streets, feeling the righteous energy of people of all ages, colors, faiths, and wealth (or lack thereof), has…
Used traditionally, in most Western music the bass keeps time churning out fat quarter-notes based on the root of a chord. Ba-dum-dum-dum-dum. On his addictive new recording Tines of Change, the visionary master bassist and composer explores his instrument’s under-utilized sonic possibilities. The concatenation of squeaks, grumbles, twitters, growls, whistles, knocks, cries, howls, and, yes, nice...
