still trying to understand what’s the big deal about the 6th diminished scale, many youtube videos rave about barry harris and the power of understanding this but i don’t follow. […]

I organized a fine art auction to help us achieve the 50k goal for completing the renovations for the Tranzac and returning to being a thriving space of performances in […]

I’ve read so much about torture, a by product of reading history, that it’s always the first thing that goes through my mind when I catch myself complaining. Like I […]

2am discussion with Anand about the Dream in High Park (he directs next summer), The Beatles Get Back and remounting his play where we first collaborated 20 years ago. When […]

Lynn Miles has songs that knock me out. I played a festival once, a northern location, Yellowknife perhaps. Maybe that was the Frostbite festival? I didn’t tune into how great […]

So many years I went without realizing it’s not hard to keep avocados ripe a long time, you just put ’em in the fridge once their skin is black. Four […]

I played a show one time and after it commenced, the engineer added reverb to everything which ruined the sound of everything to me. There are so many things that […]

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, […]