Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Well-chosen repertoire by the Pierre de Bethmann Trio and the Jacob Manz & Johanna Summer duo at recent concerts in Basel

On realizing I’ve long been wrong about what my first jazz concert was

Seeing John McLaughlin in 1983 and, forty years later, in 2023

My take on Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” from the year of its release (2014)

On lists of writers who did not win the Nobel Prize – and the case of Franz Kafka

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden do “Every Time We Say Goodbye” and I think about the history of the song