After another afternoon of teaching, we had our debut at the Empty Bottle, a great, classic, jazz/creative music bar in Chicago. Unfortunately, it lived up to its name, it was somewhat empty…but we had a good …
Choir Boys: Eight Days in Chicago-4.11.2006
Andrew showed up bright and early (5 am!!!!) He wanted to save a night on the hotel…turns out our “patron,” Roosevelt University was picking up the bill for all this stuff…he could’ve got there a day …
Choir Boys: Eight Days in Chicago-4.8-4.10.2006
I love Chicago! So when my friend Don Malone invited me to come and play his final recital (retiring after THIRTY-One years) and teach some Master Classes, I said, “of course!” Even better, he had me …
Dostoevsky and Tea….
A friend sent me this quote: “I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell. That is what I want. I …
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Me? I love Duchamp….
It never ceases to amaze me how people get worked up over art. Here, we have a guy attacking Duchamp’s Fountain.http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0609,saltz,72298,13.html First he pee’d on it in 1993. (After all, it is a urinal.) Now, the …
and more tea…
OK, one more link on tea and aging…and the prevention of a mental decline… Click Here It totally makes sense: If tea helps prevent arteriosclerosis , most commonly thought of in relationship to heart disease, would …
Tea and more…
Many of you know of my love of tea. Particularly white teas, green teas, and pu erh teas. Well, in a lovely morning of drinking organic Tuocha and doing some delightful searching on the internet for …
Saturday Night at Spark…
Wow. A memorable evening. Great music, particularly by Ben Nevile and Andrew Pask and then by Randy Jones. Ben and Andrew did a trance inducing set of interlocking polyrhythms and modal melodies, whereas Randy got more …
Also…
Many of you that know me, know that for years I have wanted a granular synthesis footpedal for my electronics…Now that I’ve gone max/msp I have one. One of the gentlemen that I’ve met on this …