Category: music
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A Tale of Two Mothers
2019 has seen two very promising releases in the Zappa Influence/Tribute genre, and it is only March! On one hand it is Liverpool’s Finest, The Muffin Men, aka the “Flab Four”. On the other is Michel Delville and The Wrong Object, Belgium’s answer to “What if you were very good at pretty much everything?” Both…
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The Disclaimer
I’m not a music journalist. Thank me later. I detest the trend of comparing every band to some other band. It’s lazy. It is shorthand. It lets the writer off the hook, bypassing the need for deep thought ot deep listening. What I write is largely reviews of music I have purchased directly from the…
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Let the Music Play
This blog has been dormant for quite a while, but my plan is to start putting up music reviews, and some longer-form pieces on learning, performing, and experiencing music. Coming up very soon: A Tale of Two Mothers
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It’s About That Time
I have a gig coming up and am taking time each day to get up to speed. Prepping for a gig can be as much or as little as you make it. Want to be uber-prepared? Get busy about two weeks ahead, daily work. If it is very charty, that would be 2 months. Metronome…
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Jazz died in 1959, and I can prove it (or Nicholas Payton can)
My good friend and bandmate John Venter just shared this with me. On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore Read it. Read it all. It sums up a lot of the feeling that I have had, and shared, for a long time. Sure I love the sound of a good jazz band. But the real deal…
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A little venting about a little movie
I know where and when I was hit broadside by the realization that I was a bass player. I was taking bass guitar lessons at Creative Music in Wethersfield, CT. It was a big deal for me. Bass was the only instrument that I enjoyed playing. I had washed out of playing both guitar and…
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Fuchsprellen Colog-nuh
A quick update on the adventures of Fuchsprellen. If this band is wrong I don’t wanna be right… We secured a date at Cafe Nine in New Haven, on very short notice, and played a double bill with Light Upon Blight on November 9. LUB is Jeff Cedrone’s project, and I have been playing bass…
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Fox Tossing, and other musical concepts
Over the past two years I have been pursuing my musical goals with more focus, specifically on my commitment to “free music” and improvisation. I caught the free jazz bug early in life and it has continued to be a fundamental force in my musical life. One of the things that has become more clear…
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HEBBY ROTAYSHUM!!!
fuchsprellen update: Fuchsprellen Fever! Catch It! Our friend Ernst shot a video at the January 3, 2013 Best Video show and it is currently experiencing “hebby rotayshum” on New Haven Cable Access… Two videos up, and a few more in the pipeline: https://www.youtube.com/user/fuchsprellen3000 Audio from 3 January, 2013 at Best Video now free, or best…
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Fuchsprellen follow-up and thoughts on 2012
As luck wold have it we were jumped by a snow storm on December 26, resulting in a cancellation of the Fuchsprellen gig at Best Video in Hamden. The forecast called for aout an inch, maybe, and mostly rain, and we got half a foot of snow instead. That is typical of southern New England,…
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