Tag: 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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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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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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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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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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Music Update!
Exclamation points aside, there is nothing really shocking going on with my tenuous grasp on vibrating air molecules. Tonight I get to play another set with my “fuchsprellen” project. That alone is good news. If it is nothing else it is my way of saying that “music” is like “wine” or “food” in that the…
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RIP Dave Brubeck
News just in that Dave Brubeck passed away at 91 My first exposure to the music I came to know as “jazz” was listening to my dad’s Dave Brubeck records. I listened to them side-by-side with the soundtrack to South Pacific, Bill Cosby, Bluegrass, 60’s folkies, Bird with Strings, Jimmy Smith, etc… basically rummaging through…
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File Under “Coincidence”
After composing the previous post I opened up a Cecil Taylor CD (Trance), lent to me by my friend Peter Riccio. I read the liner notes, written by Erik Wiedemann in 1963… As I got to the end I could not help but laugh: “If a man plays for a certain amount of time –…
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A tip of the hat to Olivier Longuet
I have been taking photographs about as long as I have been playing music, which is a long time… about back to age 8 or 9. My father and grandfather were amateur photographers with a darkroom in the basement for black and white processing and printing. For my grandfather it goes back to the early…
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The French Are Different…
from Americans, in many ways. Up front there is the fact that a small community like Rochefort, France puts on a well supported festival at all. We have cities here in the US that don’t do half as much despite much larger populations and more financial resources. The way the arts are integral to daily…
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