Bob Wiseman

I tried to get my daughter to eat salads by complaining. It’s a tried and true method of failure and after she turned her nose up enough times, I tried […]

I’m loving Whitney Balliett’s writing on musicians. He gets it better than most. “Very little about the tenor saxophonist Lester Young was unoriginal. He had protruding, heavy-lidded eyes, a square, […]

I always thought he was saying find yourself in a better what is all around you. And I thought that was a fine way to say what he wanted to […]

Ernie Tollar wrote “We write academic papers about music … but it’s hard to find songs written about academic papers” and something about that had an echo for me. I […]

The thing about playing music, especially composing or improvising, is it nurtures the interruption of thought. Not such a simple thing to do. Ordinarily, thought is talking to itself, addressing […]

I started teaching lessons online which I did not do when covid started, instead I stopped all private lessons because it’s harder to do. I’d rather teach in person if […]

I organized a silent art auction for the Tranzac which will go online next week. We’re trying to raise 50k to complete the new bar in the Southern Cross lounge […]

In Hebrew, kol baseder means everything is all right. I thought copasetic was a bastardization of kol baseder, it sounds similar and implies the same thing essentially. I looked it […]

They were doing this clown thing and it was about being vulgar or belligerent or it was about being unfriendly towards the audience and it was partly amazing and when […]

Last year, at the end of the course the teacher asked students to assign their own mark. I think the professor saw this as a demonstration of their anti-colonial pedagogy. […]