Mitch Goldman
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 [...]
Leroy Neiman
Time for another episode in my continuing series, Encounters With Recently Dead People Whom You Might Have Heard Of. I had a couple of occasions to visit [...]