A few quick hits while preparations for the unfurling of 2012 commence… Falling Up continues to receive a lot of great airplay. Crecent City Ditty just had its first spin on one of the world’s premier radio stations: WWOZ – the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Station! Incredibly, every one of the eight tracks on Falling Up has received airtime… (more…)
There’s a funny term musicians use to imply that a soloist is adequately navigating the harmonic form of a tune: “making the changes.” ‘The changes’ is quite obviously referring to the changing chords, but why is the word making the term of choice to describe the process of successfully improvising? A quick look at the Meriam Webster dictionary reveals that… (more…)
How can we recognize the difference between “good” art and “bad” art? The question is inherently unanswerable – ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are subjective terms, and the question implies an objective answer: choose good/bad like you would choose yes/no or black/white. Before we pass any judgements, we must realize that context HUGELY affects our feelings for a work of art. Imagine… (more…)