Off the Beaten Tracks January 2025

It’s crazy to me that eight years into reviewing for The Syncopated Times the only previous time I covered After Midnight was their Christmas album.

I’m not a natural ragtime fan, at least not the music most people think of when they hear the word. Solo piano ragtime often feels

My review column hasn’t visited the West Coast in a while, which would seem strange to readers who have had a jazz rag in their

Back in college one of my pastimes, hep cat that I was, was chasing the library closing time copying their LPs to cassette tapes. My