Archive - Syncopated Justice

The Night Bud Powell Came Back to Birdland

The tape from Birdland is hard to listen to, and not for the reason you’d expect.

Aug 18 • Bret Primack

The Oral Jazzman

Lenny Bruce Lives!

Aug 11 • Bret Primack

Lonely Teardrops in the Music Biz: The Rise and Ruin of Jackie Wilson

The first thing you notice is the body.

Aug 4 • Bret Primack

July 2026

From Woodstock to AI

Birthday Arithmetic

Jul 28 • Bret Primack

The Pianist Who Told The Truth

Freddie Redd died in the spring of 2021.

Jul 23 • Bret Primack

Don’t Fear AI. Fear Who Owns It

Let’s start with what nobody wants to say out loud: the robots aren’t the problem.

Jul 21 • Bret Primack

The Trumpet That Fell Silent Too Soon

Jul 14 • Bret Primack

Still Alive in the Plaza

Mexico, America and the extinction of public life

Jul 7 • Bret Primack

June 2026

Locked in the Projection Booth: My Year of Living Dangerously

Jun 30 • Bret Primack

Blazing Saddles Isn’t Satire. It’s an Autopsy of the American Brain.

The 2000 Year Old Man Turns 100 - MEL BROOKS

Jun 28 • Bret Primack

The Most Important American Film Nobody Took Seriously in 1957

In 1957, Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg made a film about a charismatic drifter who uses television to seduce a nation, and critics called it…

Jun 23 • Bret Primack

I Was There When Chick Corea Invented the Future

I first heard Chick Corea in the mid-1960s, and I never stopped following him.

Jun 16 • Bret Primack

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