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How Mexico Reintroduced Me to Time
Before I moved to Mexico, I thought I understood time.
May 21
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No Sky God Required: How Jazz Led Me to Buddhism and What I Found There
My Pranayama and Meditation Practice
May 19
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Bret Primack
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The Mexico Americans Can't Imagine
A man leaves a country and thinks he is escaping something.
May 16
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Bret Primack
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Coleman Hawkins Proved a Saxophone Could Think. Coltrane Proved It Could Pray
“Body and Soul” is one of the most recorded songs in jazz history.
May 14
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Bret Primack
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Apocalypse Now Was a Jazz Solo
The Wildest American Film Ever Made Was Built Like Jazz
May 12
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Bret Primack
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Three Cinema Classics, Reconsidered
Sixty years of films have been sitting in the dark like loaded weapons, waiting for me to crawl back through the wreckage and face them again.
May 9
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Bret Primack
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The Four Horsemen of the Collapsing American Empire
The Met Gala returned Monday night like a jeweled funeral procession for the American century, and there waddling up the marble staircase came Jeff…
May 7
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The Voice Between the Notes
Eric Dolphy and the music that lived past the edge of the known
May 5
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Bret Primack
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TV’s Most Charming Monster, Raymond "Red" Reddington
I don’t watch television series.
May 2
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Bret Primack
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April 2026
Congratulations, We Killed Conversation
Congratulations, America.
Apr 30
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Bret Primack
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George Young and the Kindness of Strangers
George Young, a virtuoso saxophonist, passed away from cancer on April 23, 2026.
Apr 28
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Bret Primack
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A Government That Targets Children
This is how it works.
Apr 25
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Bret Primack
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