Conversations with drummers – Warren Smith, Barry Altschul, Alvin Fielder, Jerome Cooper – and reflections about Jack DeJohnette
• December 4, 2025 • Leave a CommentPosted in great musical thinkers, memories
Tags: aart blakey, Alvin Fielder, barry altschul, billy hart, drummer, elvin jones, interviews, jabali, jack dejohnette, jazz, jazz drummer, jazz lofts, jerome cooper, max roach, mboom, music, percussionist, rock, roy haynes, tani tabbal, tony williams, Tony williams lifetime, Warren Smith
The economics of jazz and the broader music economy – the important role of the government
• June 19, 2025 • Leave a CommentPosted in music and politics, Music business, Music economy, Reflections on musical context
Tags: arts, arts grants, COVID, economy, jazz, jazz economy, national endowment of the arts, national endowment of the humanities, nea, neh, new york city, New York jazz, pandemic, small business administration
Six years in the life of a concert setlist devoted to performing music by Pat Metheny
• June 7, 2025 • 1 CommentPosted in great musical thinkers, Memories of shows, Pat Metheny, playing the music
Tags: christopher dean sullivan, FMR Records, herbie hancock, improvisation, jazz, jazz duo, jazz trio, Karl Latham, keith jarrett, live-performance, Lyle Mays, music, musical performance, Pat Metheny, piano trio, set-list, University of Chicago Press, Zawinul
A chronology of evolving concert set lists (2019-2025) in the process of performing, writing a book, and releasing a recording of music by Pat Metheny – with the band “Transcendence”
• May 16, 2025 • 1 CommentPosted in Memories of shows, Pat Metheny, Personal notes, playing the music, sources, the book's life in the world
Tags: bob gluck, book, chick corea, christopher dean sullivan, FMR Records, herbie hancock, jazz, jazz duet, jazz duo, jazz trio, Karl Latham, keith jarrett, musical performance, ornette coleman, Pat Metheny, pat Metheny group, setlist, Stories beyond Words, transcendence, Transcendence Plays Music of Pat Metheny
March 20, 2025: publication date for “The Musical World of Paul Winter” (Terra Nova Press)
• March 17, 2025 • Leave a CommentPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: cathedral of st. john the divine, charles ives, david darling, endangered species, eugene friesen, grand canyon, instrumental, jazz, jim scott, litchfield, music, music for the people, paul halley, Paul McCandless, paul winter, paul winter consort, paul-sullivan, saxophone, soprano-saxophone, summer solstice, susan osborn, Teresa Thomason, the environment, whales, winter solstice, wolf, wolves, world-music
“Pat Metheny, Stories beyond words” – Reflection 17 – From playing to writing and back again
• September 30, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in In the hands of readers, music and the body, Pat Metheny, Personal notes, playing the music, the book's life in the world
Tags: bob gluck, christopher dean sullivan, improvisation, jazz, jazz piano, Karl Latham, music, news, Pat Metheny, piano, piano trio
“Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words” – Reflection 16 – Returning to the Music
• September 6, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in Crafting the text, In the hands of readers, Pat Metheny, playing the music, the book's life in the world
Tags: bob gluck, christopherdeansullivan, jazz, jazztrio, karllatham, Pat Metheny, transcendence
“Pat Metheny, Stories beyond Words” – Reflection 14 – bassist Steve Rodby
• June 25, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in Crafting the text, great musical thinkers, musical content, Pat Metheny, Reflections on musical context
Tags: bob gluck, improvisation, jazz, music, Pat Metheny, pat Metheny group, Red Sky, Steve rodby, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Press, We Live Here
“Pat Metheny, Stories beyond Words” – Reflection 13 – Two views of three cover images
• June 14, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in Pat Metheny, Personal notes, the book's life in the world
Tags: bob gluck, herbie hancock, improvisation, jazz, jazz books, miles davis, music, music books, mwandishi, Pat Metheny, pat Metheny group, The Revolutionary Ensemble, University of Chicago Press
“Pat Metheny, Stories beyond Words” – Reflection 12 – “From This Place”
• June 1, 2024 • 1 CommentPosted in Crafting the text, metaphor, music and politics, musical content, musical perception, Pat Metheny, Reflections on musical context
Tags: America Undefined, bob gluck, From This Place, jazz, Pat Metheny, Pat Metheny Stories beyond Words, University of Chicago Press
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