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A wonderful juggle: completing a recording while writing a book …

• December 6, 2023 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Crafting the text, great musical thinkers, musical content, Pat Metheny, Personal notes
Tags: acoustic music, contemporary-classical-music, electronic music, jazz, jazz trio, music, music writing, musical performance, new-music, Pat Metheny, piano, Roland guitar synthesizer, roli, seaboard

“Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words,” reflection 3 – wordless vocals

• October 22, 2023 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Crafting the text, great musical thinkers, musical content, musical perception, Pat Metheny
Tags: bob gluck, composition, David Blamires, jazz, Mark Ledford, Naná Vasconcelos, Pat Metheny, pat Metheny group, Pedro Aznar, Richard Bona, University of Chicago Press

“Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words,” reflection 2 – Neither This ‘Nor That

• September 5, 2023 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Crafting the text, great musical thinkers, musical content, musical perception, Pat Metheny, Reflections on musical context, religion and music
Tags: bob moses, gary burton, improvisation, jazz, larry boryell, miles davis, milton nascimento, Steve rodby, the beatles, tony williams

“Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words,” reflection 1 – my forthcoming book is on its way

• August 22, 2023 • 5 Comments

Posted in Crafting the text, great musical thinkers, musical content, Pat Metheny, Reflections on musical context
Tags: andre chomondeley, Antonio sanchez, bob gluck, electric guitar, guitar, jazz, music, music books, musical stories, Pat Metheny, pat Metheny group, Roland guitar synthesizer, Steve rodby

Thoughts about Keith Jarrett and his “American” Quartet

• March 6, 2023 • Leave a Comment

Posted in great musical thinkers, memories, Memories of shows, musical content, Personal notes
Tags: deathandtheflower, keithjarrett, patmetheny, survivorsuite

thinking about unconscious aspects of musical improvisation

• August 20, 2018 • 1 Comment

Posted in Crafting the text, music and nature, musical content, musical perception

Protecting the word “improvisation” from a new president’s (allegedly) “improvisational style”

• January 22, 2017 • 1 Comment

Posted in music and politics, musical content, musical perception, Reflections on musical context
Tags: conversation, donald trump, improvisation, improvisational style, music, musical improvisation, president

An intuitive improvising musician gives a serious look at neuroscience… really?

• August 25, 2016 • 1 Comment

Posted in musical content, musical perception, Personal notes

Improvisers not by our ears alone; the limitations of hearing; attuning to a multiplicity of senses

• August 10, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Posted in musical content, musical perception, Reflections on musical context
Tags: bob gluck, improvisation, jazz, lawrence marks, musical improvisation, musical perception, musicalakoff and johnson, perception

John Mars: Memories of Barry Altschul, Anthony Braxton, and Dave Holland in Toronto

• August 9, 2016 • 2 Comments

Posted in Memories of shows, musical content, musical perception, Personal notes, Reflections on musical context
Tags: andrew cyrille, anthony braxton, barry altschul, beaver harris, bill smith, chick corea, circle, dave holland, drummers, jazz, john mars, miles davis, thelonious monk, toronto