Mitch Goldman
Lorraine Gordon
Sad to hear of the passing of Lorraine Gordon, proprietor of the greatest Jazz club in the world, the Village Vanguard. Lorraine used to call me during my [...]
Karen Duffy
Everything my buddy Duff touches becomes both magically enchanted and twelve times more hilarious. Hanging out with Duff is like being with all Three Wise Men [...]
Getting To The Other Side of the Lens
(This piece was one of a series that I wrote for a photo/video equipment vendor).
More often than not, we find ourselves trying to get “real people” to [...]
Low Tech Solutions To High Tech Problems
(Here is another piece of my professional photography advice, written for a major photo/video retailer's educational portal).
Low Tech Solutions to High [...]
Joe Franklin
"Mitch, did you really know Joe Franklin?" You bet I did, little Timmy! Although, to be honest, that wasn't really such a distinguishing characteristic. If [...]
Jack Bruce
I first met Jack Bruce in Stuttgart, Germany in 1995. It was a televised festival of the music of Jimi Hendrix and I was there as Vernon Reid’s tour [...]
Robin Williams
A Robin Williams story from backstage at Carnegie Hall. Orchestra Room 3 is packed with rock stars and their usual retinue but all eyes and ears are on one [...]
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Dark day. Just got word that Ronald Shannon Jackson passed this morning. I was 19 when I first heard his music. No one had ever told me that music could do [...]
Rodney King
Rodney King was introduced to me as "Glen," the name by which his family had always known him. It was in Altadena in 1994, a couple of years after That Whole [...]