Author: Kevin O'Connor

  More than twenty years ago, Duke DuBois, the legendary promotional lion for Verve and GRP records, would service gleeful public radio programmers like myself with scads of beautifully packaged reissues from the aforementioned labels. He would also send along delicacies from the vaults of Decca, EMarcy, Norgran and Veejay records. Unabashed salivation ensued. Free […]

  If the arc of your career is perpetually, well, arced, is it possible to come full circle? Before you answer, consider this: Twin Cities-bred jazz trio, The Bad Plus. launched what at the dawn of the millennium seemed like their own hand-crafted idiom. Let’s call it “cover jazz,” for lack of a more clever […]