Imagine a doubles match in tennis wherein every person on the court had their own ball. Every player would serve their ball at the same time and all four players would continuously volley all four balls back and forth. As an individual in that game, you could only hit one ball at a time, but […]
The cycle of life is such that most of us spend our first 20 or 30 years trying to prove our worth to our parents. Some of us are successful….others flounder forever jumping through hoops….others still aren’t concerned with such things. They’re the lucky ones. Speaking from a masculine perspective, I’ve been […]
I recently discovered these wonderful renditions of Monk’s repertoire. Pianist Hans Groiner has found a way to breathe new……well, you’ll just have to listen. Check him out here…..
Hans Groiner
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Norman Lebrecht’s article on scena.org laments Warner Bros. recent closure of its classical operation. My initial reaction was, “Good. Perhaps we’re moving in retrograde towards a time when getting your artistic fix required you to attend live performances.” How much does recorded music really help working musicians anyway? To combat the […]
I recently scheduled a day in the recording studio. Back in April, I saw that my schedule was going to get harried towards the end of May. I decided that I needed a goal…a project…an artistic pursuit in which to invest. So, I began compiling a list of tunes and started writing […]
I just ran across this clip of Dave Holland’s Big Band. Check out trombonist Josh Roseman in this clip. Beautiful!
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Tragedy is around us all the time. Pianist John Hicks passed suddenly a couple of weeks ago. Now we find that pianist Hilton Ruiz has met his end in the Crescent City.
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