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How Sigrid Undset Went from Secretary at an Engineering Firm to Nobel Prize Winner
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
An End-of-Year Assortment from the Honest Broker
Four Perspectives on Bing Crosby
The Best Online Essays & Articles of 2022
My Afternoons with the Singing Bowl Lady
My Favorite Jazz Holiday Story: Lester Young's Christmas Comeback
How Neuroscience Confirms the Most Ancient Myths About Music
The 100 Best Recordings of 2022 (Part 2 of 2)
The 100 Best Recordings of 2022 (Part 1 of 2)
How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study
The Best Recordings of 2022 (Honorable Mention List)
Why TikTok Users Love Sped-Up Songs
My Quest to Preserve the Secret Blues Archive of Mack McCormick
12 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now
It's Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker—Tell Us What You're Doing
Is There a Science of Musical Transformation in Human Life?
How I Joined the Euro Jazz Cult
The Amazing Music Murals of North Carolina
Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct
The 50 Best Works of Non-Realist Fiction of the 21st Century (Part 3 of 5)
The Scandalous Destruction of Jazz Landmarks in New Orleans
Don Quixote Tells Us How the Star Wars Franchise Ends
How the Record Industry Ruthlessly Punished Milli Vanilli for Anticipating the Future of Music
More than 20 of My Favorite Links Right Now
Why Musicians & Other Creative Professionals Will Soon Get Their Revenge on the Old Guard
The Secret Origins of the Musical Conductor
9 Facts About Guitarist Pat Metheny as a Youngster
The Remarkable Diaries of Composer Ned Rorem (Who Celebrates His 99th Birthday Today)
The Honest Broker Turns 18 (Months)—Here Are Our 18 Most Popular Articles
Have Smart People Stopped Writing Books?
The 50 Best Works of Non-Realist Fiction of the 21st Century (Part 2 of 5)
Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
How I Got Fired from the Jazz Police
What Do Conductors Really Do? (Part 1 of 2)
The Music I Would Play for Extraterrestrials If I Was Abducted by a UFO
The Four Comebacks of Art Pepper
The Nostalgic Turn in Music Writing
The 50 Best Works of Non-Realist Fiction of the 21st Century (Part 1 of 5)
20 Predictions for the Music Business in 10 Years
Who Predicted the Toxic Psyche of the Digital Age Better—Sigmund Freud or His Nephew Eddie?
24 Items Offered for Your Amusement and Enlightenment
YouTube May Force You to Watch 10 (or More) Unskippable Ads in a Row
Why Is the Oldest Book in Europe a Work of Music Criticism (Part 2 of 2)
15 Observations on the Emerging Vertical Dimension of Cultural Conflict
The Buying Mania for Old Songs Has Come to a Sudden and Ugly End
When Duke Ellington Made a Record for Just One Person—Queen Elizabeth
The Plan to Turn Thelonious Monk into a Jazz-Rock Fusion Star
Why is the Oldest Book in Europe a Work of Music Criticism? (Part 1 of 2)
The Rise of Beatlemania as Chronicled in a Teenager's Diary from 1964
The Golden Age of Rock with Horns (1966-1977)
Why I Moved to Austin—and How It’s Working Out
Wayne Shorter in the 1960s: 10 Classic Compositions
Music to Raise the Dead: The Secret Origins of Musicology
A Thank You, an Update, and a Remarkable Lesson on How to Play Piano for a Singer
10 Reasons Why I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack
12 Albums I'm Enjoying Right Now
10 Observations on Tragedy in a Digital Age
My 10 Rules for Public Speaking
The Gnarly Frank Zappa Essay (Part 3 of 3)
While Rome Collapsed, the Citizens Fought Over the Colors Blue and Green
How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?
Why Old Stars Dominate Pop Culture (Podcast)
The Strangest Book in Harvard Library
How My Career as a Poet Was Killed by Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
Two Open Letters to the Pulitzer Board and Staff on the Duke Ellington Petition
I Pay Tribute to Gene Palma and the Forgotten Street Musicians of New York
16 Ways I Learn About New Music
We're Making Progress in Our Campaign to Get Duke Ellington the Pulitzer He Was Denied in 1965
How My Music Got Featured in 'Better Call Saul'
Let's Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965
The New Numbers on Music Consumption Are Very Ugly
How a Doctor Killed the Baroque Era
The Gnarly Frank Zappa Essay (Part 2 of 3)
12 Books That Changed How I Hear Music
The Word of the Year Is: Sophistry
Why Did Medieval Cities Hire Street Musicians as First Responders?
The Gnarly Frank Zappa Essay (Part 1 of 3)
The Hot Mess of Fair Use for Music Educators
50 Essential African Albums (Part 3 of 3)
A Motley Assortment of Observations, Links, Songs, Images, and Idle Amusements
New Songs for Enhanced Interrogation of Your Frontal Cortex
The Day the Police Came to Arrest Me at Stan Getz’s House
These 20 Startups Want to Control the Future of Music
Advice to Musicians from Martin Heidegger
When They Had a Contest to Rename Jazz
Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.
50 Essential African Albums (Part 2 of 3)
14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture
6 New Albums Your Corporate Algorithm Won't Tell You About
The Dance Business that Scandalized America in the Jazz Age
Is the Middle Class Musician Disappearing?
I Have a Frank and Unfiltered Conversation with Rick Beato
50 Essential African Albums (Part 1 of 3)
A New Model for a Music Conservatory
I'm Put on the Spot—and Forced to Defend the Humanities in a Room Full of Medical Students
The Guitar as the Instrument of Seducers
Did Duke Ellington and George Gershwin Have a Secret Rivalry?
The Honest Broker Wins Two Awards
Spotify Shares Now Selling at Less Than the IPO Price 4 Years Ago
The Most Unlikely Jazz Star of Them All
The Music Business Turns Into Groundhog Day
The Netflix and CNN+ Disaster—and What's Next for Subscription Streaming
The 30 Most Popular Articles on The Honest Broker
Did the Blues Originate in New Orleans?
The Most Cynical Novel Ever Written
The 14 Best Moments of Music Integrated Into a Movie Narrative
The Fake Artists Problem Is Much Worse Than You Realize
How Nobel Candidate Javier Marías Became King of a Caribbean Island Because of a Novel
The First Music Streaming Service
Naysayers Will Tell You This Isn't Really Classical Music—Don't Believe Them
The Wailing, Keening Sound as a Hidden Current in Music History
For the First Time in History, a Classical Radio Station Takes Top Place in its City
How to Succeed in Arts Management Without Compromising Your Values
An Introduction to Texas Blues in 12 Tracks
Remembering Jazz Pianist Jessica Williams (1948-2022)
Jack Kerouac at 100: Part 2 (of 2)
Jack Kerouac at 100: Part 1 (of 2)
I Share a Cool New App (and a Shameful Video)
I Presided at the Birth of Google
Making a Case for Amy Winehouse as a Jazz Singer
Bandcamp Just Got Acquired by a Video Game Behemoth
What Is the Oldest Music Company in the World?
The Bands Are Never Coming Back
My 13 Favorite Locked Room Mysteries
Protest Music Hasn't Disappeared—It's Everywhere (Except the Music Business)
A Regulator Asks My Advice on Blockchains for Musicians
Could Medieval Bards Kill Rats with Their Songs and Rhymes?
I Return to Vinyl After 34 Years
How to Commit Murder Inside a Locked Room
The Magical & Musical Research of Hans Jenny, Creator of Cymatics
James Joyce's Ulysses Turns 100 Years Old Today
A Strange Medieval Manuscript Taught Me How Couples Flirted and Courted a Thousand Years Ago
Beethoven's Return from the Dead
"Multitasking Isn't Progress—It's What Wild Animals Do for Survival"
My Appearance on CNBC—and Other Responses to the 'Old Music Killing New Music' Article
Is Old Music Killing New Music?
A Tribute to Terry Teachout (1956-2022)
How Michael Brecker Reinvented the Concept of Jazz Hero
The Man Who Put Me in Awe of the Philosopher's Vocation
You Don't Need a Mentor—Find a Nemesis Instead
Eleven Wild Guesses on How Blockchain and NFTs Will Actually Impact Musicians and Songs