Chuck Braman's Writing on Politics, Economics, Drummers & Drumming; politics, economonics, drummers, drumming,Objectivism, Ayn Rand, Paul Motian, Drumming Patterns,classical liberal free market, individual rights,John Locke,Karl Marx,letters to the editor

<body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="450"> <tr> <td width="450" class="BraBody"> <p class="flush">I first began writing about jazz as a teenager for several local newspapers including New Review, The Scene, and The Cleveland Press. Since then my writing on music has been appeared in publications such as The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Percussive Notes, and Jazz Magazine, while my letters to the editor on politics and economics have been published in The New York Post and The New York Times. (I also briefly worked as a copy editor for Prentice Hall.) I currently have an interest in writing on a freelance basis on the topics of politics and economics, jazz, and drumming. I can be contacted at <a href="mailto:chuck@chuckbraman.com">chuck@chuckbraman.com</a> or at my home phone number: (212) 989-5281.</p> <p class="flush/space">The <a href="Writing/WritingLifeExperience.htm" target="_top">Life Experience</a> link will take you to an essay detailing my professional writing experience to date. (This will probably only be of interest to potential employers.) The rest of the site features samples of some of my more recent writing. <p>The <a href="Writing/WritingLettersToTheEditor.htm" target="_top">Letters to the Editor</a> link will take you to a list of letters, on various topics of current interest, that make concise arguments in favor of individual rights, and political and economic freedom. <p>The <a href="Writing/WritingPoliticalPhilosophyAndEconomy.htm" target="_top">Political Philosophy & Economy</a> link will take you to two essays summarizing the ideas and influence of the historical antipodes of freedom and individual rights, John Locke (creator) and Karl Marx (destroyer), an essay on Keynes, and a condensation of an essay by economist George Reisman on the health care debate.  <p>The <a href="Writing/WritingDrummersAndDrumming.htm" target="_top">Drummers and Drumming</a> link will take you to two interviews that I conducted in 1995 with my favorite drummer, Paul Motian, originally published in Percussive Notes and Percussioni Magazines, and two brief essays on drumming, originally published in Percussive Notes and my book, <a href="DrummingPatterns.htm" target="_top">Drumming Patterns</a>.</td> </tr> </table> </body>