I wonder if the music business course I’m teaching next winter could incorporate discussions on capitalism and music business because it’s interesting how advertising sells things, including music. Like suddenly […]

Happy David Herschfield day, Jan 2. He died about fifteen years ago. Of childhood friends, his birthday was easiest to recall, the first of us each year to become older. […]

I walked out on a play one time, there was a historical component to the story that disturbed me. It feels good to leave something when you find it painful. […]

Hard to believe while the Beatles were doing Let It Be, in 1969 Motown recorded a solo David Ruffin at the height of his powers. Never released it until 13 […]

I asked my daughter if she wants to sing with me tomorrow in the NYE Tranzac benefit but she’d rather dance. That’s just as good I said. I wonder if […]

In one of the term’s last classes, a student who usually didn’t play, came with a guitar and sung a song about someone falsely accused of a crime. Someone asked […]

trying to dream up how a music business course will proceed next year. i’d like to take a song and put the class to work reaching out to music directors […]

Yul Brynner in drag picking up Roman Polanski in The Magic Christian John Lennon singing background vocals on David Bowie’s Fame The F blues scale easily works over Ab major […]

There is a territory I’ve been to but can’t just get there effortlessly. A space where one plays something they never played before which feels very stimulating, astonishing even. Like […]

The 6th diminished scale continues to baffle me. I keep trying but I’m yet to walk away feeling like I got close. Barry Harris and all his fans, who are […]