Improvisational music is about listening, responding, adapting. At its heart, it mirrors the practice of critical thinking. When a improvising, the musician isn’t simply playing random notes. They’re engaging with […]

I think there will always be a head honcho and someone in charge – a leader if you will. Always has been and always will be. It’s even inside each […]

I took the hot sauce, the Jamaican one w scotch bonnets and added maple syrup it was wise. It wins and I can’t stop adding it to everything. The tv […]

While waiting to order my drink, Summer in the City came on. I asked the guy working there if he knew the guitarist in this song was from Canada and […]

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 […]