Ray Russell: Playing with Time Each time guitarist/composer Ray Russell releases a new album, it feels like a comeback. Now, More than Ever , Russell's debut on the Abstract Logix label, comes seven years after Goodbye Svengali (Cuneiform Records, 2006), his heartfelt tribute to composer Gil Evans Gil Evans 1912 - 1988 composer/conductor . Although Russell may drop off the radar for periods of time, he's never really far away ...
July 1, 2013 - All About Jazz
Josef Wiesehöfer in Iran Press Service Those were grand gestures and grand words, but in the end it was nothing but a hoax that the UN had fallen for. Contrary to the Shah's claims, the cuneiform degree was propaganda,explains Josef Wiesehöfer, a scholar of ancient history at the...
Gleason Archer in theTrumpet.com Dr. Archer writes: "The appearance of King Belshazzar in chapter 5 was interpreted by earlier critics to be unhistorical, inasmuch as Nabonidus was known to be that last king of the Chaldean Empire. Later discoveries of cuneiform tablets referring...
James Billington in Atlantic Online The best-preserved data tends to be on stone steles and cuneiform tablets,Billington told me when I went to the library to hear about its recent attempts to solve the "digital preservation" problem. "Papyrus, vellum, parchment-all those...