Where Are We? How Did We Get Here? And Where Are We Headed? Why do most jazz history textbooks (not to mention the infamous Ken Burns jazz documentary) end around 1970 and/or give only fleeting mentions of truly contemporary jazz? Is thirty or forty years still too recent to comment…
I keep thinking, if I wait a bit longer, Sean Drabbit will post a follow-up Facebook status saying “Sorry for the distasteful joke, Terry is alive and well. Ha, Ha. We gotcha!” But then I remind myself we aren’t kids any more, we know the pain of death all too…
Growing up in Canada, my childhood dreams all revolved around ice hockey. Like most Canadian boys, I aspired to play for the NHL (National Hockey League); and as serendipity would have it, my goal came true — by the age of 15! I played for the Winnipeg Jets from 1986-88,…
