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For a week in December in 2019, Tim McAleer, a photo researcher and co-producer for Ken Burns Florentine Films yes, that Ken Burns dug through old archives, dusty boxes and musty basements in several locations around Louisville. He was in the city gathering clues on a hunt for unique photos of the city s most famous athlete, Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
The best photos, many of which came from The Courier Journal s extensive archives, and others from personal collections, have now been compiled into a four-part documentary on the life of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
John Doran
, April 13th, 2021 08:31
Carla Bley is arguably the greatest living jazz composer; John Doran talks to the woman fellow musicians have nicknamed Countess Bleysie and Bleythoven about foundational free jazz sessions, the magic of The Liberation Music Orchestra and her epic jazz opera, Escalator Over The Hill. Home page photograph courtesy of Tod Papageorge
Edward Said immersed himself in the final works of Beethoven, Genet and Beckett while writing his own last book. Said, who produced
On Late Style while ill with leukaemia, concluded that at the end of their lives, artists did not tend to resolve issues that had preoccupied them for their entire practice but instead produced works of unparalleled complexity and unresolved contradiction.