2am discussion with Anand about the Dream in High Park (he directs next summer), The Beatles Get Back and remounting his play where we first collaborated 20 years ago. When […]

Lynn Miles has songs that knock me out. I played a festival once, a northern location, Yellowknife perhaps. Maybe that was the Frostbite festival? I didn’t tune into how great […]

So many years I went without realizing it’s not hard to keep avocados ripe a long time, you just put ’em in the fridge once their skin is black. Four […]

I played a show one time and after it commenced, the engineer added reverb to everything which ruined the sound of everything to me. There are so many things that […]

I tried to get my daughter to eat salads by complaining. It’s a tried and true method of failure and after she turned her nose up enough times, I tried […]

I’m loving Whitney Balliett’s writing on musicians. He gets it better than most. “Very little about the tenor saxophonist Lester Young was unoriginal. He had protruding, heavy-lidded eyes, a square, […]

I always thought he was saying find yourself in a better what is all around you. And I thought that was a fine way to say what he wanted to […]

Ernie Tollar wrote “We write academic papers about music … but it’s hard to find songs written about academic papers” and something about that had an echo for me. I […]

The thing about playing music, especially composing or improvising, is it nurtures the interruption of thought. Not such a simple thing to do. Ordinarily, thought is talking to itself, addressing […]

I started teaching lessons online which I did not do when covid started, instead I stopped all private lessons because it’s harder to do. I’d rather teach in person if […]