the mind is an insane asylum in control of the life of an inmate who cannot achieve any peace. that was the whole lyric of a kid in my class […]

Charlie Parker on the piano. Bud Powell. 1950s Electric shock therapy. Dead at 41. Monk’s pal, In Walked Bud. Consuming more Barry Harris, confounding ideas about harmony, can’t quite get […]

One unique thing I like in rap, is the frequency of times people share the lead voice, share who is in charge, for instance De La Soul, Kanye West. It […]

Barry Harris died. I didn’t know him but lots who have feeds that offer insights and gifts of jazz, eulogized his profound influence and while viewing their stories the thinking […]

Never knew Beethoven was accepted as a student of Mozart but changed plans because his mother took ill or Vivaldi gave instruction to players of the Four Seasons to play […]

on planet parasite everything was controlled by something else. particularly interesting were the bipeds who believed they uniquely witnessed these conditions but considered themselves independent thinkers, despite some constant complaints […]

Way to go Lina Wertmüller, set the world on fire. There was a scene in the Seven Beauties where two criminals meet during world war two. One is Giancarlo Gianinni […]

The comments on Youtube for Mozart’s channel under Lacrimosa. Ludwig van Beethoven Mozart, I’m waiting for your new pieces to come out JubbyBrab Dude you can’t even hear. cohanks @JubbyBrab  […]

last class tomorrow. we’ll play back the theft songs. one of the last assignments was to take a famous song and vary it so it is not necessarily recognizable; theft […]

Rejected for SSHRC grant, so it goes. Too many unknowns to ever know the true picture behind the rejection business. Applied to three teaching positions in recent weeks, two teaching […]