A music blog written by Rich Brown
BBC Radio has a long running program called Desert Island Discs. It is an interview program that invites a public figure to name eight recordings they could not live without. The guests are supposed to imagine themselves stranded on a desert island and choose eight pieces of music they would want with them. They get... Continue Reading →
The Bad Plus is a band that is impossible to classify. The group is often called an “avant-garde jazz trio”, which tells me less than nothing. I don’t think of their music as Jazz, at least not the straight-ahead jazz that dominates my music collection. That probably tells you more about me than it does... Continue Reading →
Music is NOT a universal language. I repeat, contrary to what is often said, music is NOT a universal language. If that were the case, every person could understand every piece of music from every culture without much effort. This is simply not the case. Much of the music around the world is organized and... Continue Reading →
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