They write: I should have started earlier, I should write better, I should have read the syllabus better. As though each requires a self help book. I was surprised how […]

Way behind finishing the audio version of my book Music Lessons but slowly it is coming to completion. If the next book ever finishes and acquires a publisher, I’ll do […]

I’m very glad I saw Gil Scott-Heron before he died. It was in Ottawa at the Jazz festival maybe 15 years ago. He was looking frail and friendly which were […]

There were musicians and audiences who felt shocked and betrayed when so and so did such and such because previously they were a certain way and this new information seemed […]

Watching and listening to a guy last night at the Tranzac seated before a table with little electronic boxes playing a loop and audience silently takes in his performance which […]

My mother did something amazing with eggplant and cornmeal and I failed many times trying to figure it out, until last night. Didn’t use cornmeal but it’s just as good, […]

I recorded the interview with Coleman Hughes so that I would not misquote and when I watched it back I clearly saw my older brother Howie’s personality present in how […]

i went down a figured bass wormhole searching for someone to show me why i should care or be excited. i only found the opposite but i’m still open to […]

Later this week I interview Coleman Hughes for the academic publication connected to where I’m studying in Guelph. Over these last months I am regularly agape tuning in online to […]

Keith Jarrett wrote a song in the 70s called the Windup. I remember the first time I heard it and the following 5 trillion times I listened to it stunned. […]