Pat Martino Became A Jazz Guitar Great – Twice
Today in 1944, the birthday of Pat Martino, a jazz guitar great who once had to relearn the instrument that had won him so much acclaim.
Keith Jarrett Improvised A Classic Live Jazz Album On A Not-Quite-Right Piano
Today in 1975, one of the best selling jazz albums of all time was recorded - a live concert in Cologne, Germany by pianist Keith Jarrett. And it almost didn't happen at all.
Germany Schaefer, The Baseball Player Who Stole First Base
Today in 1911, a very strange thing happened in a baseball game: a guy on second base ran backwards and stole first base, the base he'd just been on. Here's his very unusual story.
Classic Cars Can Also Be Green Cars, With A Little Work Under The Hood
A California company is building an all-electric platform designed specifically to keep classic and vintage cars with gas engines on the road, with much smaller carbon footprints.
Straight, No Wiki
There are little annotations all over Wikipedia - they cover the site like white goo covers a newborn baby, or like "walrus mustache cool" covers Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.