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Category: Tin Pan
Mosaics
All good things come to and end. Everything is in a flux. Prince says, “Sometimes is snows in April. All good things, they say, never last.” Barring some horrible disaster, the beautiful mosaics at the Times Square station will have a longer duration than most Read More …
Reflections on a Tonal Language
Finally Tuk Tik has a moment to help. I lofted the idea of just calling her Wendy but everyone ultimately just wants to hear the sound of their own name. I couldn’t pronounce it correctly. Yesterday, during rehearsal, I said it correctly after about four Read More …
Bangkok chill-out
The whole point of being in Bangkok is “Sanook.” The word loosely translates to “fun” or “pleasing.” Do you like sleep? Let me make your sleeping more Sanook. Do you like beer? Sanook. Everything moves very slowly here and in a strange non-linear way. This Read More …
MC Hammer and Shorty Awards
Yes, that is @MCHammer. My head is all a twitter with the events of last night. Where to start? Imagine us sitting on stage left at Galapagos Art Space. Behind us is a huge screen. On the screen is a steadily updating feed of tweets Read More …
The Joey Reynolds Show
We did our first live national radio broadcast this week. In New York it was on 770AM – WOR but apparently it gets syndicated all over the united states. It was the Joey Reynolds Show. Before meeting him we did not really know anything about Read More …
Getting ready for the Shorty’s
I just got finished meeting with the “top brass” of Twitter and we are all excited about rockin’ the 1st Annual Shorty Awards tomorrow night. I’m excited (but not as much as Stefan) that we get to back up the one-and-only MC HAMMER…I’m currently transcribing Read More …
Hound’s Tooth on iTunes
A quick post to let you know that Hound’s Tooth is now up on iTunes. You can buy the whole album or just grab your favorite cut. Hound’s tooth on iTunes. I’m reading a book called “Appetite for Self-Destruction – The Spectacular Crash of the Read More …
The Year of the Ox – Shanghai Mermaid
Saturday night was another Shanghai Mermaid extravaganza at Galapagos. This time we shared the stage with the wonderful Gordon Webster on piano. As some of you know, Gordon has been taking Rob and I out on the road with his quintet from time to time. Read More …
Ariel rocks
I got a great excuse to meet with my good old friend Ariel Hyatt. I first started working with Ariel when I ran the Williamsburg Jazz Festival. She was such a good resource in that she didn’t really handle us like jazzers. She did her Read More …