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Jelly Roll Morton: my attempt at a chronology
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Recent Posts
The new CD is HERE.
Tristan und Isolde: A synopsis
Village Person
New translations of Karl Kraus
Take good care, Joey Baron and Harrison Birtwistle!
Play Blue for Paul Bley
Inside the mind of a record collector (it ain’t pretty!)
We played here, we played there.
John Schotts are like bees: Pester one of us, the whole hive turns on you.
Roberto Gastelumendi is making a guitar
A little thought of no importance about Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet
Actual Trio West Coast Tour this November
Two new pages added: Jelly Roll Morton and Jerry Newman
News From All Over
A Gathering for Ornette Coleman, June 14, 2015, Berkeley Arts Festival
Ornette Coleman
What Key Did Erroll Garner Play It In?
Mingus Speaks, by John F. Goodman (UC Press, 2013)
Actual Trio CD – audio excerpts posted
A talk on mentors and influences for YBCA
emerging from the cave (well, at least there’s a record to show for it)
Scales: 2014 Musicians Poll Results
Coltrane. Offering’s “Offering”: An Offering
Coltrane: November 11, 1966 released on September 23, 2014, his 88th birthday
Motherload: Dust to Digital’s Awesome African Compilation
Blindfold Test-O-Rama: Plonsey/Schott Blindfold Test #2 (turnaround)
Blindfold Test: Second Attempt
This is my brain on crumbly yellowed paper
Blindfold Test: First Attempt
John Schott interviews John Schott about Dream Kitchen
Guitar Player Reader’s Poll
New Page Up Above: “See Hear”
For Guitarists: Classical Shred Shed
The Blues and “Voice Throwing”
Lighting the fuse
Yoga Garden Dancers at Berkeley Arts Center
The horror! The horror!
I Remember Hubert Sumlin
Thank You Paul Motian.
Speaking of Trios:
Trio, Trios, Triest(e)
Tom Waits’ new album Bad As Me
pierre boulez, pli selon pli, and me (part one)
My problem.
A serious candidate for the most profound thing anyone ever said to me
Sarah Wilson at Monterey podcast
Work!
Just like starting over…
Daniel Popsicle at the Webster Street Jam in Alameda
An old post: The Bay Area Guitar Players of the 90’s: An Homage