For those of you reading this who may have read the liner to my first recording, you already know that the crux of my philosophy is “jazz is a language.” It is a language with many different dialects, but the properties of conversation are everpresent in jazz. If one understands the topic, or […]
I heard/saw some wonderful music last night. The band was Jimmy Cobb’s Mob. The personnel is Cobb, Richard Wyands-pno, John Webber-bs and Peter Bernstein-gtr. They were playing mostly music that you could have heard in the mid to late 1950’s.
I was struck by two things as I listened. Though […]
I was horrified moments ago while flipping across the TV dial. On this evening’s episode of the journalistically conscientious “Entertainment Tonight”, one of the “beautiful” female reporters donned a “fat suit” in her investigative report. The idea was the drama of a “beautiful person” living the life of someone less fortunate…..an obese person. […]
A student asked me earlier this week, “what have you been listening to lately?” I felt a little awkward while constructing my response. Hmmm….it’s been a very long time since I can remember putting a cd in my stereo. But that’s not so uncommon since the advent of iTunes and the like. […]