Dec 17, 2021
Originally published as episode 59 on December 21, 2019, this popular episode is being rerun in a slightly improved version.
This is a love letter to the great English Christmas carols, from “There Is No Rose” to “The Boar’s Head”.
Did you know that not just any Christmas song is a carol? The true carol, in...
Dec 9, 2021
Mary Lou Williams: one of the outstanding jazz pianists of all time, composer, Catholic convert, visionary, performer of works of mercy.
Because Williams's career lasted and her style adapted through many changes in jazz from the swing era to the early 1970s, and because she mentored two of jazz's most influential...