Bob Wiseman

I liked the interview with historian Tom Holland so much, after I looked for his books in the library. First I found was Dominion. I read a book many years […]

Playing with the Cameron Family Singers brought up that space when improvising with people in straight ahead forms of music like country or blues or certain jazz and you have […]

I only heard of Steve Heighten after he recently died and I read some of the tributes. I found this on his website. Looking forward to reading his work. i […]

Got a vaccine shot in the arm, for shingles. Hurts a lot in my shoulder like my brothers’ hiding around the corner when I was ten, ready with a surprise […]

Soon after his recording studio was raided by cops and through a kangaroo court he was sentenced to six months in jail. Gives me a different impression of Zappa’s formation […]

I asked them to listen to four songs before the next class. Songs with surprises that turn the song inside out. Not sure it is teachable but hoping it is […]

I heard the Siegal Schwall bluesband as a kid they slayed me {to quote Ted Triebner}. There was a bass line I particularly loved with rolling movement on one piece […]

Before she died Lianne Fournier recorded a last song and it accommodates dying from that space known specifically to people positioned in last times, a pose eventually each of us […]

1/ Reviewing the film The Boy Band Con 2/ Impressions from a couple chapters of Lloyd Price’s Memoir 3/ Creating a plan for performing two nights in a row in […]

Still wondering how to fan the flames of music agents. It’s like a chess move I can’t yet solve. What would Hikaru do? There’s a memorable interview, maybe it was […]