Recent Work
The clips available via the links below are presented purely for portfolio purposes as recent examples of my published work. Although I was the author of the original text in all cases, I claim no ownership of the final product. If you represent one or more of the publications that have been drawn from here and object to the presence of the clips online for copyright reasons, please contact me and I will remove them.
Part two of a two-part feature on nonstandard guitar tunings, Yamaha Music Blog, May 18, 2018
Article on guitarist Frank Vignola’s comeback from a life-threatening accident, JazzTimes, May 2018
Career retrospective interview with Ron Carter, JazzTimes cover story, April 2018
Part one of a two-part feature on nonstandard guitar tunings, Yamaha Music Blog, April 20, 2018
“A Century of the Acoustic Guitar in Jazz,” Acoustic Guitar, April 2018
Article on Adrian Belew’s guitar collection, Guitar Player, March 2018
Feature article on the history of bossa nova, Acoustic Guitar, November 2017
Interview with John McLaughlin and Jimmy Herring, JazzTimes cover story, September 2017
Career retrospective interview with Jimmy Heath, JazzTimes, June 2017
“Overdue Ovation” feature on big-band leader Ed Palermo, JazzTimes, May 2017
Feature article on the legacy of Albert Ayler, JazzTimes, October 2016
Article on Ork Records: New York, New York boxed set, The New York Observer, November 5, 2015
Interview feature with Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, Newsday, September 13, 2015
Interview feature with David Duchovny, Guitar Aficionado cover story, July/August 2015
Feature article on Pops Staples, Guitar Aficionado, May/June 2015
Profile of the Gipsy Kings’ Tonino Baliardo, Guitar Aficionado, May/June 2014
Interview feature with Public Enemy’s Chuck D on Record Store Day 2014, Newsday, April 13, 2014
Review of Johnny Cash’s Out Among the Stars, Billboard, March 29, 2014
Report on an in-store performance by Wild Beasts, The New York Observer, March 4, 2014
Review of Arcade Fire’s Reflektor album, Bass Player, February 2014
Queens of the Stone Age concert preview feature, Newsday, December 8, 2013
Review of Peter Hook’s memoir Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Bass Player, June 2013
