My second Blue Note record is out. Album bio: ETHAN IVERSON There are a number of elements on Technically Acceptable, the second Blue Note Records release from pianist/composer Ethan Iverson, that …| DO THE M@TH
Rick Beato has interviewed Keith Jarrett for a reasonably slick video presentation. Any one who cares for Jarrett will need to watch. While it is tragic to see a giant after a debilitating str…| DO THE M@TH
Happy birthday to me! 50 is a substantial number. One way to measure: I was born three years before the American Bicentennial, so now I have lived through almost one-fifth of United States hi…| DO THE M@TH
Matthew Guerrieri wrote three piano pieces for me! Standard, Chorale, and Badinerie references my great love of crime fiction, with epigraphs from Boileau-Narcejac, Chandler, and Hammett. I played …| DO THE M@TH
A nice surprise awaited me the other morning when finishing up the latest Bernie book by Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown. Good grief, I think I attained nirvana for a few moments …| DO THE M@TH
New essay at TT about the great Johnny Mandel and his terrific back-to-back scores to classic noirs featuring Paul Newman and Lee Marvin. This is another piece that will only be posted at TT (not a…| DO THE M@TH
My newsletter/essay machine Transitional Technology has superseded DTM as my main venue. Sign up is free. Recent posts: Controversial music theory? A review of Philip Ewell’s new book Georgia…| DO THE M@TH
New for TT, a look at Thad Jones on the occasion of his 100th birthday, by Russell Scarbrough.| DO THE M@TH
In Prospect Lefferts there is a very cool venue called The Owl Music Parlor. On Sunday (March 12) I’ll be playing two sets with Thomas Morgan and Eric McPherson. Dancer Reggie Parker (who was a sma…| DO THE M@TH