A disquisition on a couple of things that shit me

April 5, 2014

Because life is pretty miserable, and just about everything you can see is motivated by greed or self-interest or indefensible fear of the different, because we fight with our children Read the full article…

Mid ’90s

February 5, 2014

What’s happening here is that I’m dredging back a whopping eighteen years into the recesses of my collection, to a performance given on October 23, 1995. This was my twenty-fourth Read the full article…

Standards and bearings

January 30, 2014

The standard repertoire in jazz is something I’ve resisted engaging with as a performer for some years now. Largely because of the debilitating effects of the example set by Keith Read the full article…

The death of Isabella Dunn Sangster

November 28, 2013

John Sangster (1928-1995) was a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose origins in the traditional jazz community in Melbourne during the 1940s were later effectively eclipsed by his involvement in a wide Read the full article…

Two favourite intros

October 26, 2013

I know what I said but I’ll have just one That tastes good Okay then let’s go let’s get this over with only afterwards don’t anyone stand close to an Read the full article…