I have a lot of dead friends on Facebook. It is a little extraordinary or maybe not. Maybe others like me who have been on this over a decade, have […]

Sometimes I meet people who want to take lessons and confess they can’t improvise. They say things like I don’t know how you do it. Naturally, I try to get […]

Ten years ago, my good friend died. He did me many good turns as an older musician when I was fresh to bigger city life. Out of my depth, wishing […]

dream last night, had to turn breaker switch on from a special corner of a brick room but my old friend Matt was asleep leaning near the wall and when […]

The online interview between Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi. On one level illuminating journalism exposing the intricacies of how corruption lives. They address Russiagate, which amazes me considering I am […]

The small part of the brain doesn’t stand a chance against the rest of it. The brain itself created the part that behaves as though it is in charge, but […]

The thing in B flat keeps calling me. Even though these pieces adhere to a classical piano aesthetic, I also try floating pop song thoughts like verse/ chorus/bridge sensibility. In […]

Went to see Buddy Guy with Anand. So odd to see the jam session from Grossman’s Tavern up on the Massey Hall stage. Equally odd people dropping major coin to […]

There is an idea in music that we have statements or phrases which resolve or remain suspended. Similarly, so does speech. People speak in questions which seek responses: tension and […]

In our class open stage a student read a poem about being a candle. It was a rap and I wish I recorded it. It was about the fact that […]