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Continue reading →: Joe Pass: Memories, Music, and Laughs
This post also appears on Medium. As a very young kid, I was exposed to amazingly diverse music—from Chubby Checker, Joey Dee & the Starlighters, The Beatles and all of Motown to Jerry Vale, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson, and some of the greatest jazz instrumentalists of…
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Continue reading →: The Carl Barry Trio
Today, I’ve uploaded onto YouTube three selections from The Carl Barry Trio. These are studio recordings featuring my brother, guitarist Carl Barry, along with bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Eliot Zigmund. Steve LaSpina is a superb bassist who has played with many great jazz musicians—from Chet Baker, Marian McPartland, Zoot…
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Continue reading →: Paul Cantor and Libertarian Literary Criticism
Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism: Essays in Memory of Paul A. CantorEdited by Jo Ann Cavallo Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, 317 pp. Though we corresponded, I never had the pleasure of meeting Paul Cantor, the American literary critic and Clifton Waller Barrett Professor in the English Department at the…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2189
Song of the Day: As features the words and music of Stevie Wonder, who celebrates his 75th birthday today. This song appears on Stevie’s legendary 1976 album, “Songs in the Key of Life.” That double album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, won the Grammy for “Album…
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Continue reading →: Embraceable You – Joanne Barry
In my ongoing YouTube blitz featuring the performances of my brother, jazz guitarist Carl Barry, and my sister-in-law, vocalist Joanne Barry, today I’ve uploaded Joanne’s album, “Embraceable You” (Fat Note Records, 1998). Unlike “Holding On” (Stash Records, 1984), which featured mostly original compositions, this album contains songs primarily from The…
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Continue reading →: Holding On – Carl and Joanne Barry
As a follow-up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Guitar Heroes” concert, featuring my brother, jazz guitarist Carl Barry, I’ll be uploading on YouTube various recordings and performances by both Carl and his wife (my sister-in-law), vocalist Joanne Barry. Today is the debut on YouTube of Carl and Joanne’s album,…
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Continue reading →: On Tariffs: Smith vs. Trump
This essay also appears on Medium. Scroll down for a rejoinder to various criticisms of this essay. Adam Smith vs. Donald Trump (from Wikipedia Commons and Truth Social, respectively) The first one hundred days of the Trump presidency have come and gone and nothing I’ve seen has altered my view…
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Continue reading →: Michelle Marder Kamhi, RIP
Today, I learned that my friend, Michelle Marder Kamhi, died at the age of 87, after a long illness. I have known Michelle and her husband Louis Torres for over 30 years. They have been among my dearest and most loving friends. Michelle was a graduate of Barnard College. She…
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Continue reading →: Carl Barry at The Met
Back in 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a wonderful exhibition, “Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York,” which celebrated “three New York master luthiers, renowned for their hand-carved stringed instruments—particularly their archtop guitars, which have been sought after by many of the most important guitarists of…
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Continue reading →: 30 Years for Mom
It is truly unbelievable that today marks 30 years since my mother, Ann Sciabarra, died. (And if you think that’s a long time, my Dad has been gone for 53 years!) Mom passed away in the wee hours of Greek Orthodox Good Friday, April 21, 1995. At her funeral, Father…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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