In 1985, I was a far bigger fan of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny than just about any other musician. The album that infected me was 1982's Offramp, which sounded unlike anything else I'd ever heard. I became a hardcore consumer...  read

Of the Mos Def character in 16 Blocks, you wrote: “Eddie has the kind of voice that makes fingernails on a blackboard sound like Kenny G.” What are we to make of this comparison, given that Kenny G. already sounds...  read