I was busy whispering a detailed explanation of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of the “Will” into the eager ear of a young lady in the backseat of my 56′ Ford when it happened. Believe me, it took quite a jolt to disengage my attention at that exact moment. After all, I was only 18 years old and my red corpuscles were pounding […]
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S.J. Perelman is one of my favorite artists. Mr. Perelman was a humorist and writer. He essentially wrote short pieces in a very distinctive style. His use of language and skill with words were and are highly regarded. Many of his pieces (or “feuiletons” as he called them) appeared in the New Yorker and later were gathered into collections to
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I’ve always wanted to create a bass/guitar duet album with straight ahead jazz on an arch top electric guitar in the vein of Jim Hall/Ron Carter/Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Duet is it.This is a very limited run of 200 discs. Click the link if you’d like to contact me to purchase one. I hope you enjoy it as
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Maurice Ravel has been my favorite composer for many years. Studying his life and music has been a real passion for me. I have visited Ravel’s house (museum) in Montfort L’Amaury, which is 50 km from Paris, several times. I own 23 different books in English about Maurice Ravel’s life and music.
My favorite composer is and always has been Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Samson Francois was a French concert pianist and, in my opinion, a great one. His Ravel and Debussy recordings are excellent and I also like his Chopin recordings. The EMI box-set of Samson Francois playing Maurice Ravel has some great moments.
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I certainly don’t intend to get anyone riled up but I want to vent on a topic I have given a lot of thought to. In the realm of jazz guitar (and almost especially in the realm of gypsy jazz) it seems that some soloists think that simply stitching a series of well-executed prepared licks together constitutes a good “improvised”
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