I wrote this article drawing attention to the chronic gender gap in classical and jazz music for the Things Made From Letters website, which is managed by my publisher Allen & Unwin.…
A bit of a thrill to see my GIRLS in this extract in the newspaper today, and so lavishly illustrated with a portrait of Jane Austen (herself a serious piano…
I must be missing New York's cold January weather. How else to explain the two ice packs I've clutched to either end of me this past week in a hot…
Poet Charles Simic wrote this loving paen to jazz piano bars in New York for the NYRB blog recently. His celebration song is closer to an elegy for the small…