7 Audience Development Resolutions for 2017
“Your beliefs become your thoughts; Your thoughts become your words; Your words become your actions; Your actions become your habits; Your habits become your values; Your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Together, let’s make these resolutions for 2017: … read more
AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2017-01-01
Patti Smith’s New Year’s Eve vow: “We must not behave!”
Grey-haired but loose and limber — funny, fierce, profane and poetically incantatory — Smith celebrated her 70th birthday in the city of her origin as if for all boomers and our progeny. … read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2017-01-01
Monday Recommendation: Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The Declaration Of Musical Independence (ECM)
Andrew Cyrille, a bold drummer, long since established his audacity and the independence underscored in the album title. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-01-02
What will remain
My posting about the sad fate of my beloved Uncle Paul, who vanished without trace from my life when I was a boy, brought me a fair amount of correspondence, including … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2017-01-02
12 Plays of Xmas: 6 Pal Joey by O’Hara, Rodgers & Hart
Book trouble – it’s the curse of the musical. One of my most slaveringly anticipated shows of the past winter was David Bowie’s Lazarus, but the book by Enda Walsh was an embarrassment of … read more
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2017-01-01