A piece on the composer/pianist's first sessions for Blue Note in 1947. 

Back on Downtown to discuss a new story, "My Nickel," the life of Tony Dow, the people near the stairs at Government Center, the Band at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970. 

Talking about a new piece on "I'm Down," Beatles in Vancouver in 1964 and "If I Fell," and an Atlanta show from 1965. 

Interview about various episodes of the radio series, Gunsmoke.

On Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers' "Jesus Gave Me Water." 

Talking with Rich Kimball about the stories "One-Way Zebra," "Jaw Bones," "The Ghosts of the Alley, the Ghosts on the Wall."

Athletes better than most people think, and athletes not quite as good as most people think. 

Examining Paul McCartney's "I'm Down" for Best Classic Bands. 

Off-the-beaten-path forms of and perspectives on Sherlock Holmes. 

Talking about the book with author and professor Bruce Pratt. 

Why there is no better time to read Joyce's Ulysses, and why you shouldn't be intimidated to do so. 

Why Buster Keaton was so good. 

Journeying with Judy Garland for her 100th birthday. 

On Judy Garland's place in the history of American artists. 

Interview about F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

Digging deep into some stories in the book. 

Talking about poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Wallace Stevens, and Walt Whitma. 

Discussion of favorite John Lennon vocals and the newly completed Beatles book, Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan. 

JazzTimes cover story, the Boston Bruins in the playoffs, thoughts on which hockey player in history has been tasked with carrying the most of his team's load, 1982 Boston Red Sox, and a Captain Waverly Underhill episode of The Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater. 

Why music is bigger than a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

An underrated episode of The Twilight Zone, the perks of lemon water, the legend of Mickey Mantle's alleged 565-foot home run, M.R. James on Lights Out, Pink Floyd live in Stockholm in 1967. 

A story about the ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and Abraham Lincolin in the afterline. 

A feature on Dexter Gordon and the 1986 film 'Round Midnight. 

Covering a new short story called "Bobby Orr," a recently surfaced Led Zeppelin soundboard from 1975, the Who at the Fillmore East in 1968, an unaired Boris Karlof pilot, and Orson Welles's relationship with Joseph Concrad's Heart of Darkness. 

Video conversation about the Sam Cooke 33 1/3 book for the Arlington Heighs Memorial Libary.