Dan Epstein is the Forward’s contributing music critic. His books include Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76.
Dan EpsteinContributing Music Critic
By Dan Epstein
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Music Yes, they’re both Jewish, but Barry Manilow and Lou Reed had something else in common
Two guys from Brooklyn helped to launch Clive Davis and Arista Records into the stratosphere
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Music I was up onstage with Bob Dylan at Newport the night he went electric
For keyboardist Barry Goldberg, the legendary 1965 folk festival started out as a nightmare but ended up as a dream
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Culture A lovin’ tribute to one of the unsung Jewish heroes of rock ‘n’ roll
For a time, Zal Yanovsky was an effective foil for John Sebastian, but it was not to last
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes In a rare Lumet comedy, Jews meet an unexpected landsman
Why the cab scene in 'Bye Bye Braverman' is still a riot
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Culture Was ‘Blazing Saddles’ better than ‘Young Frankenstein?’ — an exclusive Forward investigation
Ranking Mel Brooks' films from 11-to-1
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Culture How to get closer to Lou Reed than you ever could in real life
‘Caught Between the Twisted Stars’ features artifacts from every phase of the artist’s career
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Culture George Carlin’s ‘Class Clown’ is 50 years old — does it still hold up?
A new Judd Apatow-directed documentary on HBO leads our critic to revisit an album he loved in sixth grade
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Culture The Jewish jazz master who Hunter S. Thompson thought could cure any ailment
I first met Herbie Mann in January 1979, when I noticed him bursting out of a phone booth in the parking lot of Tower Records in L.A. It wasn’t the noted jazz flutist in the flesh, of course, but rather the image of him on a six-foot-tall cover of his new album, “Super Mann,” which…
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