student
a student writes in their journal that they are trying to quit smoking and that they keep failing then realized they also keep practicing new scales on piano and do […]
Lessons
jazz skills
The jazz course started with Fly Me To The Moon and Autumn Leaves. Now onto I’m in The Mood for Love and Falling in Love with Love. It is like […]
le deux
Walking in High Park thinking more on the design of Joyce Carol Oates amazing book My life as A Rat when somewhere in the bushes I heard a sax playing […]
my life as a rat in A flat
I’m currently reading My Life as A Rat by Joyce Carol Oates. It gets worse and worse. She amazes me that the characters go to such horrible places but it’s […]
writing process
It is very useful in writing to suspend judgement and pour out content even if you suspect it is horrible content and not up to scratch. It is just filling […]
Les Baronets
While awaiting a rejection letter from the music faculty of the University of Western Ontario regarding my application, I have been developing a course concept. It revolves around teaching music […]
probably think this post is about you
Listening to an interview with drummer Andy Newmark, talking about the recording session fifty years ago, on You’re So Vain by Carly Simon. Richard Perry, the producer, replaced him with […]
3 parts
While putting my daughter to sleep she told me she fears strange sounds when she is alone in the house. I reassured her about the origins of some pipe sounds […]
heaven room
At one point they moved the class of young jamming musicians, from the college to a commercial rehearsal space where they had several rooms, each with a theme. The room […]
epiphanies
I watched an improvisation at the beginning of the Sun Ra concert in the mid 80s in New York in a small theatrical space adjacent to the Chelsea Hotel. It […]