Piano

The fire doors are almost done. The new person upstairs is almost moved in. The architect has almost started the drawings. The show almost has a network. But the arpeggios […]

I hear a message on the overhead speakers when I ride the subway of the Toronto Transit Commission to stay off the tracks or face a $5000 punishment. I do […]

I played the Jazz festival Colloquium in Guelph under the title improvising melodicism. The more I thought about what I got myself into, the more I realized I couldn’t explain […]

The new course is underway and I met with the teaching assistants to discuss what we are doing. I realized soon into the zoom they just want me to order […]

The nice thing about arguing with my brother Ronnie about God or no God is that we can call each other names and get blunt and mean without ending our […]

Went through many roommates when I just moved to Toronto. Arty the alcoholic who would invited the whole bar after last call, to hang out at our place and sometimes […]

There is this objective or direction in meditation practices. Look at a candle, observe thoughts without attachment, recite a mantra…all variations of controlling thought, of trying to position consciousness away […]

I started an incredible book by Daniel Kehlerman who died this year. Thinking Fast Thinking Slow. I never previously heard of him but I like Sarah Haider’s X and Youtube […]

Watching an interview between Andre Previn and Oscar Peterson. Oscar says when he was a late teen he had become arrogant about his piano capabilities and his father, a man […]