photo by Bill Milkowski Guitar god of my youth, John McLaughlin, now 81, sat crosslegged on the carpeted dais floating in the middle of a...

Got the sad new news today about Tony Bennett's passing at age 96. He was a sweet, vivacious man with an urge to swing who had been...

On what would've been his 91st birthday last week (I was delayed in writing this blog piece by a stay in the hospital), my thoughts...