Bob Wiseman

It’s that moment in an improvisation where someone is leading and someone else tries to go in another direction and they work it out in one of two ways. Theres […]

The judges at the songwriting contest all had associations with hits but each of their hits achieved stature through capitalism and payola. So, to be rejected meant nothing about how […]

At the start Moses Znaimer took the stage. How long it will take him to mention Leonard Cohen for no reason. Turned out about twelve minutes. Thankfully, Yvonne Ng was […]

The brain is wired up to find meaning in everything, hence believing there is meaning in life. Maybe another way to put it is that it does not compute to […]

It’s that time of the semester when students hand in their “bad song assignment” and I check whose bad song is the best bad song. Some make things that are […]

I started listening The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, as a book on tape, partly because earlier I read a book about Hemingway’s editor, Maxwell Perkins, and I found […]

The musicians who are not much fun to play with, often display no sense of listening to others. They lead expecting others to be thankful about being in their company. […]

If you were a kid of this century you’d understand but you’re not, you’re old. Thus ends any disagreement between me and the ten year old. Her logic intact. Filling […]

If the brain makes all it’s decisions based upon intelligence what then was it doing keeping her repeating destructive behavior over and over and over? What did it gain by […]

I damaged a relationship one time, I said something critical about the music of a friend who asked me what I thought of their new record. There was every reason […]