I wish Wagner wrote The Year of The Cat or The Lady In Red, but truth is, musically he wrote some unique awesome pieces. He was also a big Jew […]

Django Reinhardt made 60 records in 4 years. That’s all I’m saying.

Yesterday’s class included an album presentation on K-Pop band EXO. I listened to the students convey a narrative about how hard it is for these young wannabe stars. They seemed […]

There’s this piece I started some weeks ago. It goes off often inside my head and I can’t recall how it got there. Happens throughout the day, this is a […]

Am almost finished the R. Murray Schafer autobiography though there are four other books being read simultaneously for school. I prefer one at a time but am not in a […]

a musician friend of mine died years ago, he was around forty years old. it shocked many people at the time, as death of a before-their-time person always will. you […]

The workload is starting to bottleneck and probably some things will be delayed in their completion. When these things happen there’s a temptation to start playing a certain song with […]

An interview for my book with the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. They were 10 – 25 years older than me, I enjoyed not being the oldest person in […]

If you don’t want to write the same song over and over then you have to study what happens that keeps you from the creating something new, otherwise there you […]

Yesterday, students were discussing unwanted encounters with recurring songs on radio or grocery stores even online virality. Why do they play that over and over when it’s horrible? And sometimes […]