Mark Rozzo

Nov 4, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Mark Rozzo

It’s been said that everybody knows Quincy Jones’s name even if nobody is quite sure what Quincy Jones did. If that truism is true, there’s good reason for it. In an outsize and many-pronged career spanning the music and entertainment industries for eight decades, Jones–who, according to his publicist, “passed away peacefully” last night, at age 91–was practically everything, everywhere, all at once, and therefore nearly impossible to pin down.

Oct 14, 2024 | christies.com | Mark Rozzo

‘You want the thing to glimmer. You want it to have inner power,’ Ed Ruscha once said. The writer Mark Rozzo takes a closer look at one of the most important images of American artAuction Highlights20th & 21st Century ArtVideo14 October 2024Ed Ruscha (b. 1937), Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964. Oil on canvas. 65 x 121½ in (165.1 x 308.6 cm). Estimate on request.

Oct 11, 2024 | airmail.news | Mark Rozzo

In 1949, when the artist and collector Paul Ruschá was six years old, his family motored from Oklahoma City along Route 66 to visit his grandparents in California. They made a pit stop in the dusty town of Winslow, Arizona, where the five of them—Paul, his parents, and his older siblings, sister Shelby and brother Ed—ate breakfast in a roadside café. That establishment went belly-up eons ago.

Jul 23, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Mark Rozzo

“Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller... all the blind guys.” That’s how the multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, one of the chief architects of the British blues revival of the 1960s, who died at 90 yesterday at his home in California, described the influences that shaped his musical tastes and inspired a career that stretched across six decades.

Jul 23, 2024 | flipboard.com | Mark Rozzo

He gave B.B. King “the cold sweats”, replaced Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers and founded Fleetwood Mac – how Peter Green changed the course of British blues-rock guitar playingPeter Green was the founding member of Fleetwood Mac, and having put the band together, was generous enough to name it after the drummer Mick …