Category Archives: Jazz

So Nice

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

Great hang with an awesome bassist, fun rehearsal, dinner with musicians with brains, a attended startling great concert, and then hung with some truly smart jazz musicians.  People with brains, and wit. Yesterday’s bitterness is sliding away.

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Seeing

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Feeling more clear.  Eating normally.  Doing exercise.  Haven’t done adderall since last Thursday.  Need to write more music. Planning to over-record.  Have been so under-recorded for so long.  For a long time over-recording was a danger.  But today, with such … Continue reading →

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Morons Making Music

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Amazingly, jazz proficiency and IQ seem remarkably uncorrelated.  So many of the people playing jazz in legitimate clubs in New York are shockingly stupid.  No other art would tolerate such inanity.  Writers can’t get away with being unable to carry … Continue reading →

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Downtime

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

So after a long week, an insane weekend.  last minute call on Thursday to play with famous, brilliant, accomplished, monster musicians.  heroic amounts of drugs to get through it.  then gigs until 4am on Friday and Saturday.  Slept until 2:45pm. … Continue reading →

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WTF

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

in visual art, people will buy anything if they’re convinced that the creator is brilliant – in music people will happily spend hours listening to idiots

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The Hustle

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

So many thoughts about the hustle, and being a poser.  But so little time to write them down. The more I hustle, and get better at it, the more my childhood fantasy of jazz as a meritocracy is shattered.  I … Continue reading →

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Perspective

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

Today I spent 9 hours in a hospital chair being infused with Rituximab (brand name – Rituxan).  I was running on 1 hr of sleep and suffered an adverse reaction, requiring treatment with additional steroids and benadryl. Then, freed from … Continue reading →

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