Tag Archives: Nightfall

Revisiting Boston Garden, ‘The Old Barn on Causeway Street’

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

The building was forty-one years old [in 1969]. Hard years. In a cramped and shopworn corner of the city, one flight up from the train station, surrounded by elevated subway tracks and an elevated highway that kept sunshine and clean … Continue reading →

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Fred Taylor, Gil Scott-Heron, and the Bicentennial Blues

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Sad to say, Saturday’s Boston Globe featured this front-page probituary of Boston jazz impresario Fred Taylor. Another blow to the local jazz scene: Legend Fred Taylor fired ousted at Scullers Fred Taylor, a legendary figure on the Boston jazz scene since … Continue reading →

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Dave Brubeck: The Last (Raggy) Waltz

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Back in the ’70s, I was lucky enough to interview the great Dave Brubeck, although I didn’t know that he was great or that I was lucky at the time. For reasons that defy explanation, I was a music reviewer … Continue reading →

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