If you’re able to be awake and sentient at Midnight on Saturdays in Hollywood, you can experience the most wonderfully weird variety show in Los Angeles: “The Tomorrow Show.” Hosted by the incomparable Ron Lynch, a comic genius who Duke Ellington would have complimented with his highest praise “beyond category,” TTS is unpredictable — a fictional...
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...
