(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…