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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…