Small as a Pin or as Big as the World
Happy Friday the Thirteenth! I’ve long considered Friday the 13th to be a lucky day — among other things, my youngest son was born on a Friday the 1...
Author: Tom Campbell
Asheville Skyline
On a recent visit to the beautiful city of Asheville, in the midst of a couple of stimulating hours looking at art in the Blue Spiral Gallery, even the view out...
The Theory of Peg
Donald Fagen explains how his tune “Peg” works, with Warren Bernhardt. A plagal cadence never sounded so good. Wow, great stuff — I agree with...
World’s Toughest Milkman
I discovered recently that David Boswell, the brilliant creator of Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman, is now making all the Reid Fleming comics avail...
R.I.P. George Duke
I was sorry to learn that the prolific pianist George Duke died this past week. I had the pleasure of seeing him live with Frank Zappa in the early ’70s. ...