Lately I’ve been listening a lot to the archived shows of WFIU’s Night Lights. I still mourn Toronto’s loss of CJRT (& Ted O’Reilly), which has become the putrid JAZZ-FM. I’ve also been listening to a cool early-music program, Harmonia.
Penned a ton of reviews for Paris Transatlantic’s September issue — wait a few [...]
by Anne
Once upon a time there was a ginger cat that had a hamster friend. They were good friends. They were both six. The hamster was gray. They went to a parade and saw the famouse cat clown. After that they went swimming at cats house and went to the sea and bathed in the [...]
Just a quick note to say that the music reviews section of the site is updated.
This is Anne’s report on her July trip to Halifax.
A TRIP TO HALIFAX
Halifax is very hot in summer and bizzy my Grandpa owns a music shop. They have a dog mamed Hamish. He has a friend named Pichles. Pichles is a little dog. Hamish is is big there is swimming pool that has salt water [...]
This evening Anne got a treat, as she had got her piano practice (reluctantly) out of the way in the morning: she got to see Monsters Inc. on the TV, which she hadn’t seen for several years. It holds up in many ways better than I’d anticipated — I was surprised that even though I [...]
Natsuki Tamura, Elliott Sharp, Takayuki Kato, Satoko Fujii, In the Tank, Libra. I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. The reasons I thought I wouldn’t are: (1) the cover art is darn weird in an offputting manner — a lobster in a bathtub, two 17th-century children & a tarot card, [...]
…but I did have a nice afternoon meeting with the drummer Harris Eisenstadt down at the Rebel House pub. A good talk, which ranged from his studies with Barry Altschul to Bernal’s Black Athena to klezmer to jazz of all sorts. I’m still shopping the proposed interview around to a few different music mags.
First [...]
This is by my daughter Anne. “Andy” is Andy Rubin of Baltimore Chop. He takes his dachshund Elvis on the road with him wherever he goes.
SABR
My Mom works at SABR which is about baseball Andy is one of my best friends and has a dog and I got to walk his dog his age is [...]
The new Paris Transatlantic is up online: it’s got a couple pieces of mine in there, on the Natto Quartet & Vijay Iyer.