Twenty years of the trio

June 24, 2023

Three years ago my PhD reached its double-decade, and that felt like a bit of a moment. (I still think it reads fairly well, and scholarship has not moved so Read the full article…

Strangers

April 24, 2023

I am a Hitchcock tragic. I have almost all his movies on DVD, and I watch them regularly. I am fanatical about the people with whom he worked – for Read the full article…

Music of grief: Janacek, Ellington, Liszt, Brahms, et al

April 2, 2023

This paper was written all the way back in 1996 and delivered on April 18 of that year. I was in the second year of a Master of Music Performance Read the full article…

We’re getting the band back together

January 18, 2023

Chris Lawson said, ‘I thought the session was really good! But when you left the studio, you looked a bit down.’ He was probably right; I wasn’t sure as I Read the full article…

Irony is standard

August 1, 2022

The heading for this post was the title I was going to give an album of standards I planned with my trio. We were going to play ‘No-one can like Read the full article…