The Beat Goes on with ‘Kerouac on Record’
These essays explore the connection between Kerouac and the music he loved -- Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and others -- and the musicians who loved him, in turn.
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Tom Waits: Preacher on a Pale Horse
A guide to nine songs for the faithful, the faithless, and the searchers.
An Alternative Christmas Playlist for the Coming Ice Age
If the idea is that earth, water, fire, air and space constitute the core elements of life, then these five songs might seem as their equivalents to surviving the complications that come from embracing the good and enduring the ugly of the Christmas season.
Tom Waits: Eluding the Authorities
However many smokes he’s inhaled since childhood, Waits' trademark growl is a choice -- his first step to direct listeners' attention to the work of musical performance.
Chuck E. Weiss: Red Beans and Weiss
Cartoonish in nature, like an exploding cigar joke. No matter how smart one thinks he or she is, one always laughs to the groove at the moment of detonation.
Robert Ellis: The Lights from the Chemical Plant
On this challenging and intimate album, Robert Ellis walks up to the brink of despair and calls it out to play.