Mozart and Charlie Parker died young. Paul Chambers died younger. He was thirty-three years old when he succumbed to tuberculosis fifty years ago on January…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
If ours is not a great age of Tudor, Elizabethan, Protectorate, Restoration, Hanoverian, and ongoing Windsorite dramas on big and small screens alike, it is…
The “R” isn’t working. As the letters blink to life one after the other from top to bottom there’s a pause between the “T” lighting…
Against-the-grain singer and piano man Bob Dorough died this past April at the age of 94. His singular approach to song will always be associated…
It used to be that you’d duck out of a smoke-filled jazz show for a much-needed gulp of fresh air. Bebop was breathless in more…
Time is not just relative. It’s political, too. We often measure our lives by presidential terms: the Carter years; Clinton time; Bush I; Bush II?…
Jazz is thought of as a secular music, yet at its best the church echoes through it. The give-and-take of jazz is said to have…
Lambeth, London — That Frank Sinatra’s recording of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and Bobby Darin’s “Splish Splash I was Takin’ a Bath” are both…
Can the credits wreck a film? I’m not talking about choking on a popcorn kernel when you see that the best boy happens to be…