a good music teacher told her class certain lessons are never learned only a pattern is repeated. the problem, the attempt to fix it and the inevitable failure and that […]

Lady Day and John Coltrane by Gil Scott-Heron Lenny by Bob Dylan Goodbye Pork Pie Hat by Joni Mitchell All Those Years Ago by George Harrison Tonight’s the Night by […]

went to the store to get a few groceries but long line up. we take turns looking at each other and looking at the shopping carts and looking at the […]

A: when you solo are you thinking? B: no, i’m listening. A: you’re only listening? B: i take it back. i’m thinking and listening. A: like conversation? B: precisely. A: […]

doing research for a book idea for school. looking at a disturbed lawyer I knew in another lifetime and how these current studies in improvisation for the PhD business, intersect […]

looked up stanley cowell online a couple times and wrote him to thank him for the lesson when i was 14 and he came through winnipeg with percy heath and […]

passed another racoon with distemper. that’s three of four of them over the last two months. racoons ordinarily flee people or if they do get close it isn’t because they […]

there was a dump of snow two weeks ago. meaning, i went tobogganing. lithuania park with zillions of kids squealing down slopes trying to avoid crashing into the many no […]

I met Nick Lowe by chance in an arena at a concert. He was leaving but I couldn’t help telling him he was who he was and he agreed. I […]

We used to count steamboats when playing football, like the duration for you to speak the word “steamboat” was the way to measure how long the person with the football […]