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Blog Highlights

Note: I edit this list as time goes on so that it doesn’t grow too large. There is of course more content to be found in the archives or by searching the tag cloud.

Guest Posts:

Rethinking Musical Intent, by Kayla Sadowy

The Benefits of a Bad Music Education, by Josh Bryant

Original Audio:

New Wave Oatmeal

Piano Music

Too Huge World (For String Quartet)

The Student Of The Day Is: Chad Spencer

Sunrise Blues/Sampler (No Cowboys)

String Trio For A Domestic Lifestyle

Like Days (For Cello and Double Bass)

My MFA Mid-Res

Dan DiPiero Quintet

Kalopsia sounds (four tracks live from Ryan Parrish’s MFA Mid-Res)

Wake (For Solo Cello)

Jak Kyokong/Dan DiPiero-Duo

Three Short Improvisations For Search And Restore

Let’s Cool One (Monk) and Not Soon Forgotten (For Emily)/Summer Band Camp (Mick Goodrich), By Aditya Jayanthi and friends.

Ici-Bas, By Tom Davis (Tom Davis Trio)

The New Bison, By Dave King/Happy Apple (Billy Wolfe, Larry Cook, and Myself)

Sample: Sweet And Lovely (Aaron Quinn Trio 9.24.09)

I’ll Give You That, by Aaron Quinn (Septikk, Live at Dick’s Den 9.4.09)

Glitch Switch, by Billy Wolfe (Septikk, Live at Dick’s Den 9.4.09)

In A Mellow Tone: Me with Capital U. Professors

Body And Soul: Same Set

A-Train: Same Set

Music Impressions:

Thoughts On Value

On Working Musicians

The Question Of New York

The Record

On Dissonance: A Mini-Manifesto (Pt.1) (Pt.2) (Pt.3)

No One Understands: A Rebuttal (and response)

Hearing Jazz (Pt. 2)

Columbus (Pt. 1), (Pt. 2)

Not Helping; A Questionable Diagnosis of Jazz’s Popularity Crisis

Speaking With Authority

The Avant-Garde: Group Dynamics and Improvisation

The Question Of Audience (Pt. 2)

The Question of Audience

(What Is) Musical Authenticity? (A Wrap-Up, An Apology, And An On-Going Discussion)

On Free Improvisation

(The Beginning and End Of) Septikk: Marketing Jazz (Pt. 2)

My Jazz Now Picks and A Comment On Their Usefulness

Compositional Process

Still Greasy: My First Jazz And Ribs Fest

Classical Music In Clubs

Jazz and Its Audience

Personal:

On Improvisation

Westward

Hurry Up And Wait: The Second Round Ends and Corresponding Audio

Round Two (Pt. whatever)

Fred Hersch (Part one, two, three, four, and corresponding audio).

Round Two (Pt. 2) and Corresponding Audio

Round Two (Pt.1)-A Detailed Account of My Second Attempt at Grad School

Into The Fire (I play with my professors)

Reviews:

What I’m Reading

What I’m Listening To

Sofia Gubaidulina at REDCAT

Emanuele Arciuli At REDCAT

John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble At REDCAT

Claudia Quintet, Black Keys

Listening in January

John Hollenbeck-Rainbow Jimmies

Stereolab/Paul Bley Trio

An Enourmous Suite: Peter Retzlaff Visits Columbus

Veckatimest, By Grizzly Bear

Chimarra Com Rapadura, By Heremto Pascoal e Aline Morena

Happy Apple Back On Top, By Happy Apple

Education:

Steve Coleman In Class

On Practice

Drumming Warm-Up Exercise

SIM: A Week In Review

Fred Hersch (Pt. four, and corresponding audio).

Inside “Intro To Polyrhythms” and Corresponding Audio

(Pts. 2&3)-Outside Resources/SIM intensive

(Pt.1)-Brushes For Beginners

Transcriptions:

Roy Haynes-“Down Home”


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