By Colleen Dougher Martin Casuso, a Miami Beach artist who spent around 15 years working in the antique business, says his appreciation of objects and their untold tales began as a child when he and his brother would go to the seawall in their Coconut Grove neighborhood and build forts from treasures they found there. Their finds included rusty copper, sun-bleached … [Read more...]
Medeski, Martin and Wood: From scrappy trio to jam band royalty
It isn't exactly John Belushi's "seven years of college" quote from Animal House, but Medeski, Martin and Wood keyboardist John Medeski has an admission regarding his own higher learning at the New England Conservatory in Boston. “It took me about five-and-a-half years to finish there,” he says with a laugh. “I had a scholarship, but I got so busy that I dropped to part-time … [Read more...]