The Marlowsphere Blog

High Tech/Hi Touch in Action: Social Media’s Impact on Today’s Working Musician (Part 1 of 2)

The Marlowsphere (#30) The 2012 Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP)/JazzTimes/Jazz Journalists Association (JJA)/Chamber Music...

“We’ve Got Rhythms”: Where The Heritage Ensemble Gets Its Spin & Groove

The Marlowsphere Blog (#29) Last week I posited that in today’s music world no music...

What Is World Music and How Did We Get Here?

The Marlowsphere (#28) In  his 2005 book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of...

Congratulations Bobby Sanabria –“Multiverse”CD release

"Multiverse" is receiving outstanding reviews: “The Nuyorican jazz giant is a stylistic sponge, historical repository...

Pay to Play: Why Some Club Owners Should be Shown the Door

The Marlowsphere (#27) For the last few weeks I’ve been writing about indigenous jazz musicians in...

Ms. Joey Lu: Shanghai Jazz Singer/Pianist

The Marlowsphere (#26) This week's blog is a profile of Ms. Joey Lu from my forthcoming...

Chinese-American-born, Shanghai, China-based Guitarist Lawrence Ku

The Marlowsphere (#25) This week’s blog is the third in a series of profiles of indigenous...

Saxophonist & Teacher Zhang Xiaolu: The Jazz-Man at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

The Marlowsphere (#24) This week’s blog is the second in a series of profiles of...

Xia Jia: Beijing Jazz Pianist of the “Minimalist School”

Marlowsphere (#23) Last week’s blog was about classical music education in China. This week’s blog...

Music Education in the Land of the Dragon

The Marlowsphere (#22) In keeping with the overall “music, media & culture” themes of The...