My mix of the month (not on CD) for tonight's long-awaited November meetup is You Don't Say. This one's a collection entirely composed of instrumental tracks.  read

My CD mix of the month for tonight's February meetup is A Hip-Hop Primer, with A Hip-Hop Companion thrown in as a bonus. The first is a mix I put together to provide a friend's teenage son with an intro...  read

My CD mix of the month for January is Struts & Frets. It's a (mostly) instrumental collection of many tasty and virtuosic varieties of (mostly) acoustic guitar music.  read

My CD mix of the month for tonight's increasingly rare and precious October meetup is Trips off the Tongue. A lot of words in this one. (Try playing that five times fast.)  read

My CD mix of the month for tonight's rare June meetup is The Accidental Terrorist: An Imaginary Soundtrack to the Movie of the Memoir. However, it could equally well serve as a soundtrack to the book, especially in the form...  read

I wasn't able to make Saturday night's CDMOM meetup, but my mix of the month for June was a historical recreation I'm calling Community Radio. "Listeners' Choice" was a show that aired every Friday evening on KRCL 90.9 FM, Salt...  read

It's been a long time since I posted a mix of the month, but the CD Mix of the Month Club hasn't been mixing it up very often lately. A few of us convened for karaoke earlier this month, though,...  read

It may seem a tad late to be posting a mix for January, but I sort of got busy and failed to do so last month. Yes, the CD Mix of the Month Club reconvened a few weeks ago to...  read

It's been a long time since I posted a CD mix of the month, but that's because I've been in Chicago and haven't been able to attend the (increasingly irregular) meetings of the CD Mix of the Month Club for...  read

Five years ago today, Michael Brecker—one of my favorite saxophone players, and a pioneer on the instrument in many ways—passed away of complications from leukemia. He had suffered from the rare blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome, and never found a matching...  read