In the story about improvisation I keep improvising the story and thinking it is too bad there isn’t a universe where I am assessed instead for the improvisation of the […]

One can listen to birds and imagine they are musicians doing a free improv. One can also forget about the imagining part.

There is an interview with the Bulgarian musician and mystic who recorded the Butterfly Studies where he describes our waking state as just an extension of the dream state. Seemed […]

When Fred Stone asked me not to play another note unless I heard it, what happened was entering a different state of listening. Not that I never had that experience […]

I knew a guy who booked a club in Western Canada who as far as I was concerned was an ape and he tried to rip me off but I […]

I was looking up the 50s song Sea Cruise for a student and found a version by Johnny Rivers. Turned out a monster was on piano I had never heard […]

As soon as they lowered me into the chair and froze my mouth and stuck things inside it so I could not communicate and went to work on the two […]

A student read from his journal. Ostensibly the journals are for writing songs but sometimes people just pose philosophical questions. He asked in this excerpt if a robot realized it […]

In the meditation business people are given a mantra and they are supposed to remember it and use it to interrupt a wandering mind, but minds wander. Why do minds […]