Bindel and Angel
I know so many ghosts. All gone now except my memories. I will also be a ghost down the road for others. Sometimes you want to ask how can this […]
I know so many ghosts. All gone now except my memories. I will also be a ghost down the road for others. Sometimes you want to ask how can this […]
Realistically, everything is from the Earth, like rocket ships. Everything man appears to make comes from using parts found or transformed but always originating from the Earth. It made you […]
Playing the Cameron with the Cameron Family Singers. They select songs that are trickier to improvise with than the usual “country” tinged pieces other people I’ve known choose. Their aesthetic […]
Some people think upon learning history, that the people of other times were foolish but not us. We are in the here and now. We are too smart to just […]
There is an improvisational technique I keep trying to hone. I realize it slowly over years and years. I am not proficient but I have made inroads. It is a […]
“Back in 1968 I saw Tony Williams and John McLaughlin at the Jazz Workshop in Boston on Boylston Street. It was the size of your living room, you’re stepping all […]
Ernie Tollar, everyone’s favourite musician, is now a soloist in the Multiple Sclerosis all stars. Soon traveling to Mexico for a treatment that potentially halts or slows down its progression. […]
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 […]
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 […]
I played a piece I wrote at the Mendelson Joe memorial in April and it was videotaped. Good thing I didn’t realize that because recordings often are a distraction. When […]