Weekend Listening With Jim Wilke
Now and then, Rifftides alerts readers to Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, the program in which the veteran broadcaster presents his recordings of the region’s jazz artists. Jim’s long-running Sunday series has become … read more
Cultural property lawyer (and blogger) Ricardo St. Hilaire responds to Antiquities Ambiguities: Parsing the Legal Arguments in the Battle of the Getty Bronze. Ricardo St. Hilaire I’m glad you are covering this case. Cases in … read more
Richard Wilbur and Robert Lowell read and talk about their work on an undated episode of USA: Poetry, originally telecast by NET, the predecessor of PBS, in 1966: (This is the latest in a … read more
“He liked a play to have a beginning and a middle and an end; he liked to spot the crises, to recognize a craftsman at his business of constructing craftily; he like a firm ending, … read more
Grant Green, From Paris To Antibes (1969-1970) (Resonance) Grant Green, Slick! Live At Oil Can Harry’s, (Resonance) Two previously unissued Grant Green albums are giving the guitarist’s music something of a comeback. Green, … read more
Italian Judge Giacomo Gasparini‘s June 8 decision giving the laurel wreath to Team Italy in the Olympian legal contest over the Getty Bronze seems to me persuasively well-reasoned (although awkwardly worded in the Getty’s 46-page … read more