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In France, almost one hundred years ago, there was a twenty-two year old named Hughes Panassié. He was passionate about the music he discovered – jazz. He published his music […]

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I called my 90 something mother because it was the anniversary of her wedding, a date I liked ever since being a kid. My dad died 20 years ago and […]

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All the Kanye, Busta Rhymes, Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, Tierra Whack, Common and Mac Miller that’s been swimming around my playlist is mixing with what happens in my studio. […]

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I asked Susan, the student who wrote a song about the digestive track, what made her write it and she said she was thinking about the fact that she eats […]

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The recent album report was We’re Only In It For The Money by the Mothers of Invention. I’m so pleased when I learn new things about records I thought I […]

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At one point while touring with Owen Pallett in 2006(?) we played the Mercury Lounge. It was sold out, it was exciting. I was the opener and during the first […]

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Bill, the student from Leemington, told me how much he’s learned from the course which was very nice to hear, said he rolled his eyes, in the first class, over […]

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They say his birth name was Ferdinand La Menthe but in 1938 he told Alan Lomax he changed his name to Morton because he didn’t want to be called “Frenchie”. […]

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When I got the gig to play CB’s Gallery in New York in the early 90s, I asked my manager, Don, to come with me. Never imagined doing it all […]