Episode #9: Not What I Intended

Episode #9: Not What I Intended

Ways to Listen: A Free Improvisation Goes Wrong, meaning Exactly Right (transcription below) When a free improvisation doesn’t go the way I planned it leads me to the conclussion that sometimes the best-laid plans are unlaid plans. But really, it’s a...
Fear of Musical Simplicity, Part #0

Fear of Musical Simplicity, Part #0

facebook twitter LinkedIn Ways to Listen: I Love a Good Tune My previous podcast was a defense of musical complexity in a time of musical dumbing down. But that does not mean I’m about complexity for its own sake. In truth, musical complexity should arise out of...
Fear of Musical Complexity, Part 1

Fear of Musical Complexity, Part 1

Ways to Listen: It’s OK to be Complex! We live in strange musical times. OK, fine, we live in strange times, period. But as a musician who came up during the 1960s & 70s, it is, admittedly,  difficult to negotiate the current musical landscape, particularly...