Çe soir

June 24, 2014

The turntable went to the shop, a place peopled by lunatics, and when finally I retrieved it I was told there had been nothing wrong with it. By some amazing Read the full article…

The Salon recital

May 17, 2014

Two things surprised me: I was nervous, but nowhere near as nervous as I’d expected I’d be, and today I’m not in a slough of depression such as frequently follows Read the full article…

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…