I love and consume music; it is a sustenance, it is a guide, it feeds me and it sustains me, I play it and it plays me, I am a musician too. Just in the last week it dawned on me I am like a musical magpie. For all the copious amounts of music I consume and as much as …
Humans are not like trees
I am in the most incredible place,A little land with a delicate tree or two,The sun is coy and scarce and sometimes shines,And slaps me in the face with warm truth. My glasses tumble off and break,My face burns from the slap,As quickly as it came it is gone again,And left in me the taste of careful pain. I look …
Conversation: The root of good improvisation.
As a jazz bass player, one of the central functions of my musical existence is about having good conversations with others. It is what I crave and search for and it is the time when I feel most alive and engaged. I suppose good conversation makes most of us feel validated and listened to. The same as the process of …
I’m so tired.
The Beatles have created more than their share of great songs and lyrics. I love them and know their music really well and have played a lot of it over the years. Their music feels like it has always been here. 4.2 billion years ago, as the earth’s crust was cooling, the DNA of the Beatles’ songs were already woven …
Some music just makes sense to listen to.
Some music just makes sense to listen to. Like a logical expression or an irrefutable truth, and there are a lot of people who seek this kind of perfection in music for both listening and performance of. A perfectly balanced musical statement so sublime you can only marvel in its beauty and wonder at the great mind that created it. …