Bitches Brew: The Indefinable Greatness of Miles Davis
Fifty years later, there's something about Bitches Brew that still feels strange, wild, and unfamiliar. There's a magic in Miles Davis' cauldron that binds the ingredients to create a potion that is somehow greater than the sum of its exceptional parts. There's an almost indefinable something that …
Bitches Brew: The Importance of Challenging Music
Jazz can often be seen as a genre that challenges listeners, but one of the greatest jazz records of all time -- Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew -- was born out a need to challenge the genre, to push back on the establishment, and to break down old conventions and notions about what jazz could be. Davis …
TMT 049: George Grella
As the Brooklyn Rail's Music Editor, critic at the New York Classical Review and with his own Big City blog, George Grella covers the musical waterfront with an informed and creative point of view. Often forceful and always entertaining, George doesn't shelter his opinions in hyperbole including in…
TMT 165: Joseph Cassara
Joseph Cassara's debut novel, The House of Impossible Beauties, finds its inspiration in the lives and music featured in the Paris is Burning documentary. The 1990 film is a vibrant examination of Harlem's ball culture. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Joseph recontextualizes the real life p…
Baseball, Religion & Renewal
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Part 2 of Paul and Stephen’s Chinwag turns to the religion of baseball with writer, comedian and passionate fan, Alex Edelman.
If Paul is gonna talk sports, it’s bound to be about its spiritual pull and ability to expand space and time. They’ll get into all of it: superstition, Mark “the B…
SKYLIT: George Grella, Jr., MINIMALIST MUSIC (GENRE: A 33 1/3 SERIES)
Minimalist music is not about minimal materials. It's about time. It's a process that puts the experience of time into sound. In discussing Minimalist Music, his new book for 33 1/3's GENRE series, musician and critic George Grella, Jr. (Miles Davis' Bitches Brew) looks at the classical music histo…
George Grella: The Time-Bending Art of Minimalist Music
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on George Grella, one of the sharpest music critics working today.
George is the music editor of The Brooklyn Rail and has written for The Wire, the New York Times, and, luckily for us, The Tonearm.
George just published Minimalist Music, part of Bloomsbury…
George Grella, "Minimalist Music" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Minimalist Music
(Bloomsbury, 2026) looks critically into the music's past, shows how
the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalism's
ongoing future.
Minimalism as a genre is best defined not by any style or flavor but
by its means. Certain rhythms and chords in other m…
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