Kenny Shanker burns with boppish abandon.

The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

I hate everything about traveling but I love to explore new locations so I wish I could snap and arrive somewhere whenever the need or impulse would arise.

Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.