Pat Metheny w/ Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Dewey Redman, Mike Brecker: 80/81 I had the tremendous fortune of meeting saxophonist Mike Brecker - literally one of the greatest saxophonists to ever walk the face of…
(In Pursuit Of) Cool Sound, 3
Growing up as a young musician, and having non-musician friends whose exposure to music was limited to whatever happened to be playing on top 40 radio, was, at times - and strictly musically speaking -…
(In Pursuit Of) Cool Sound, 2
I played a load of different kinds of music growing up. Under the tutelage of the incredible teachers in the music dept. of the Waltham MA school system, I was introduced to symphonic music, chamber…
(In Pursuit Of) Cool Sound, 1
A few years ago, my bud Peter Lund over in Helsingborg, Sweden asked me to compile a list of 10 albums which were influential in my musical development. There’s no way I could narrow that…
(In Pursuit Of) Presence & Flow, Pt. 1
Dialogue is something I had previously perceived as "discussion", oftentimes neither constructive nor generative, but just talk. Theoretical physicist David Bohm’s description (below) altered my perception regarding dialogue's potential, the dynamics of which I subsequently…