Some of the conversations in the music business class this week. Lizzo’s guilt tripping the world and should people feel bad for the hurt feelings of a multi millionaire? Universal […]

In the album presentation today the young nervous woman read her notes and it did not sound compelling. I looked around and her fellow classmates were not understanding her. I […]

Went to the Rivoli last night to see Scott Thompson’s band Mouth Congress. Always spooky to walk down Queen Street and all the ghosts from my memorable years playing many […]

Heard an old Frank Zappa record I never played before. A black and white picture of the man on the cover, maybe it is from 1967. A song called plastic […]

At a certain point the most beautiful thing about life is that you can choose to learn anything you fucking want. Whether Barry Harris’s 6th diminished scale or how to […]

amazing thing about playing instruments is finding tricks or at least being vigilant trying to finding them. not everyone can but definitely it is over forever for those who do […]

There was nothing new about the recipe for making dahl from the guy from Pakistan except one spice I never heard of and can’t remember. Nonetheless I made the best […]

Only two episodes into The Gentleman and it is the best music in a series. Brilliant compositions. I wonder if it is all the composer or the relationship between the […]

I have a friend who flies off the handle. He is passionate about his politics and maybe a tad hysterical. Mendelson Joe had that gene, I think he owned the […]

Saw a winter knit hat in a market which was black with two red wings. I thought it was bird-like and Magali is a bit of a bird woman, she […]