By Mitchell Schwarzer, author of Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
It was the spring of 1964 and the sea air caressed my face as my father drove us along the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. He pulled off to a rest stop. We got out of the car and raced to the shorel...
By Kimberly Hannon Teal, author of Jazz Places: How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History
In some ways, it’s completely unremarkable that pianist Fred Hersch spent his 66th birthday earlier this October recording a live album at the Village Vanguard in New York City with guitarist Juli...