improvising

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On the subway a guy across from me, big white hair pompadour,exactly like Jim Jarmusch, film-ghost of a downtown dream,and I liked believing it was him,this artist of smoke and […]

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I think about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde often. Folks talk about it like a strange horror story, but it isn’t strange at all. It’s honest. That’s what we are. […]

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Old fusion albums. Listening back, a lot to learn there. Sometimes it’s just meandering, people testing the edges while forgetting about the center. At other times, it’s greatness. Risk becomes […]

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Cecil Taylor, Keith Jarrett, and Pee-wee Herman walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What’ll it be?”Cecil Taylor launches into a 45-minute solo order that nobody understands, Keith Jarrett complains […]

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To wonder about consciousness is to get tangled inside one’s own awareness, to play a kind of Sherlock Holmes with the endless inner dialogue that never pauses, never lets go. […]

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I find it very hard these days to make sense out of what people mean when they say right wing or left wing. Once upon a time, it never seemed […]

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Sometimes I can’t fall asleep. It’s partly the strange bed, a mattress that feels like someone else’s rhythm, and partly the stress needing to be up early to drive my […]

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The new ostinato is in E major, yet it is no simple pattern. The leap of a twelfth bends the passage’s logic like a frozen river cracking beneath each step. […]

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I’m working on two new ostinatos one rooted in B, the other in E. They started off as simple loops, but lately I’ve been trying to stretch them across two […]

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Two TikTok musicians went viral for doing duets with parakeets and remixing theme songs from 90s cartoons. Between them, they had five million followers and seventeen brand deals. After a […]