In 1917 four seismic shocks rocked the human species: in Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution brought a specter from Europe into the center of the world’s most expansive land empire.  …

Download or Stream this Episode Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Miles Davis jazz album “Kind of Blue.”

Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation. by Mark Goodwin Heltzel 200 pp. Eerdmans. 25.00. I was never a great saxophone player, but I was about as good as one could…