I remember. I remember that hot July day when you died. It was the summer of love for everyone else. It was the summer when I lost my love. It was a sad summer. I could not eat because I missed you. I could not sleep because I missed you. In the autumn, I felt …
Italian Composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866 -1924) said that “music is sonorous air”. A vibration that we experience without being seen with the human eye. John Lyndon, “Some ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it”. The Roscoe Mitchell Sextet starts a …
Listening to trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist Jaimie Branch’s newest release, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise is like making an investment in the visionaries, believers and dreamers of tomorrow. It’s the discovery of music this inspiring and important which makes all this music collecting a worthwhile endeavour. Fly or Die II functions …
As a senior in high school, I skipped a lot of class. If grades were measured on cunning and deceit I would have gotten straight A’s. It didn’t take much motivation for me to duck down a lonely hallway on a mostly unfrequented wing, and find that door that the security guard never monitored. Finding …
