On Aidan Levy’s Sonny Rollins biography, in the New York Times
On Sylvia Rexach, in the New York Times
On 1961 (Coltrane, Baraka, Jacobs, Beckett, Ono, Pachanga, Twist, etc.) in Washington Post
On John Coltrane’s early Prestige records, in Bandcamp
On Jimmy Giuffre, in Tidal
On Julius Hemphill, in 4Columns
On ZZ Top’s First Album, in Tidal
On Uwe Johnson, and Patrick Wright’s The Sea View Has Me Again, in 4Columns
Conversation with Marisa Anderson in Presence zine
On Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” and Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day, in Criterion’s The Current
McCoy Tyner, 1938-2020, in the New York Times
On the Fall, in Affidavit
On Stereolab, in 4Columns
On Kim Kashkashian, Bach’s Cello Suites, and the violaness of the viola, in Affidavit
On speaking and dreaming in Cassette, in npr.org
João Gilberto, 1931-2019, in the New York Times
On Lennie Tristano’s relationship to American visual artists (Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Bruce Nauman) and various kinds of assumed relationships between jazz and visual art in the mid 20th c., in Ursula
On listening bars and LA’s In Sheep’s Clothing, in the New York Times
Liner notes for Ornette Coleman’s The Atlantic Years LP box set (excerpt in Jazz Times)
On Ryuichi Sakamoto and background music in restaurants, in the New York Times
Liner notes (excerpted) for a reissue of The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan, for Vinyl Me Please
On John Coltrane’s Two Directions at Once, in Pitchfork
On Neil Young’s music in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, for the Criterion Collection
On Liz Harris/Grouper, in Pitchfork
On Tristan Perich’s Drift Multiply in Red Bull Music
Cecil Taylor, 1929-2018, in the New York Times
On Kate Briggs’ This Little Art and translating, in 4columns
“Mere Virtuosity,” an essay in VQR, Spring 2018 issue (an update and revision of the 2017 Una’s Lecture at University of California, Berkeley)
On encountering music’s past, in npr.org
Liner notes for a reissue of Miles Davis’ Sorcerer, for Vinyl Me Please
A conversation with Mark Turner, in Music & Literature
On Keiji Haino, in 4columns