Neil RajalaAug 3, 202210 min readLIVE SHOTS: A Dozen Favorite Live AlbumsThis list started out as five albums, then ten. Finally, after some agonizing, I settled on a dozen. It’s killin’ me to leave off some...
Neil RajalaApr 6, 202214 min readDANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE: (aka) Writing About MusicFrom what I’ve been able to dig up, the quote “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” likely originated with either...
Neil RajalaNov 9, 20215 min readJohn Coltrane and Karrin Allyson: A tale of two Ballads.Cover songs are, of course, everywhere, you hear them all the time in every form of popular music. Not at all uncommon for a semi-popular...