Feeling Untethered
Chick Corea died yesterday. Nobody was really expecting this. Mind you, we never seem to really expect it; the musicians that hold...
Tasting Notes - Andrew Hill + Gropello
This post constitutes an attempt to bribe myself into writing more about music by devising a concept which involves drinking. There are a...
Ready...steady... postulate
Welcome to my new blog. I'm planning to write from time to time on a few topics: -improvisation -writing music -production and recorded...
Let's go round agai..
What makes a great cyclic riff? You know the kind - you can't stop playing it, singing it, dancing to it...it's addictive. I've taken...
TOO MUCH INFORMATION
"sounds good.....maybe too good....?" Here are two statements that paraphrase views about jazz recordings I've heard quite a lot over the...
The Leon Millot grape
Grape varieties are a lot like musicians (stay with me). They have distinct characters which people like or dislike. Sometimes they're...
