10,000 HOURS Professional networks, tight-knit scenes, and informal underground subcultures are invaluable to creative development, giving artists and musicians a forum to find their voice, and workshop creative ideas before joining the glut of the broader market.  You’re probably familiar...

“I don’t have any education at all; other than the kind you get just walking around.”—Bill Withers interview on Soul! television program, December 29, 1971 But that is precisely why Bill Withers was an extraordinarily well-educated and divinely seeded portrait...

An interview with the father of Ethio jazz, Mulatu Astatke, admittedly felt out of the realm of possibilities. The 81-year-old musical pioneer, who orchestrated an entire genre lush with Latin jazz, funk and Afrobeat, might as well have been stuck...