There was a student who tried to write about how to sustain great states of improvisation. She thought better moments only happened occasionally. So her teacher advised her to try […]

There are many complaints about the music business but the musicians I love the most side step all those contests and present music that does something revolutionary. Like the moment […]

One time I heard someone equate music with the position of everything in space. This was at a lecture at the University of Manitoba, the theme was “the self” and […]

Cracked a filling, called the dentist. She’s an awesome dentist. She came recommended by her teacher, a professor who introduced himself to me seven years ago after a piano concert, […]

There are some artists Ruth heard that stunned her, ruined her, transformed her. She returned to them again and again, knew every note, every kick, every surprise. When you are […]

Sometimes I get hate mail. They are upset I have an opinion that is different than theirs and I must to pay by reading hysterical curses and bad spelling. A […]

Sometimes I take a break from whatever I’m doing at the Tranzac and walk down the street to the Future Bakery, drink tea and watch people then head back to […]

The Blind Boys Of Alabama cameo the radio singing House of The Rising Sun. My daughter demanded I change the channel to the hits station I said no you’ve never […]

For her final project the international student wrote that songwriting presumes there is something wrong to repair and that that premise was more interesting than the variety of styles or […]

The old teacher said the end goal is to stay involved with improvising and get more deeply into it or to put it another way the ending of an improvisation […]