by Kile Smith | May 1, 2013 | Classical music, Early Music
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 30 April 2013, under the title The great debate: Sackbut or trombone?] When all you have is a hammer, it’s said, everything starts to look like a nail. The job of constructing an answer to the early/modern instrument...
by Kile Smith | Sep 25, 2011 | Pop Music
[This article republished with permission from the Broad Street Review.] Grady Tate, the renowned jazz drummer, probably had no idea what to expect from the recording gig when he set up his drums. The song looked like nothing on the page. The title alone would be...