Part of my draw to improvisational music is the space between uncontrolled ideas and will. Most of my first impressions about a person’s character, have hardly anything to do with […]

I heard a woman sing at the open stage a few months ago. It was very very amazing. She had the kind of controlled vibrato that make everyone’s eyes go […]

I was listening to a Spotify 50s mix when a very odd reverb and delay version of Blue Moon came on it sounded like Elvis Presley but then he went […]

In our last open stage, Melanie, a student from Windsor, said it’s so unfair who gets to have a hit song and a career and who doesn’t. She said it’s […]

I’m looking through the many AI tools online and it reminds me how these already have established themselves in music. An app that writes long form content (moonbeam), an app […]

A musical brother of mine, David Aaron, based in New York but formerly a Toronto guy who had the record store Flip City in the 80s/90s near The Cameron, wrote […]

I visited Toronto one time when I was a teenager, two of my brothers were living there. An awesome part of the trip was checking out what was front racked […]

A percussion student asked his teacher how long it would take before he reached the same level of the teacher ‘s playing. The teacher replied fifteen years. The student said […]

There was a guitarist who seemed in a trance when soloing and someone asked him where he was headed when he played, he said I have no idea, ask the […]

I don’t know what ever happened to Mark French. I knew him in two different ways, before and after Blue Rodeo. Before, he had an incredible mystique fronting his groups […]