Touring the Reality Based Community

Thanks to everyone who has commented about the Miles Davis Cellar Door post below. I guess it was a…


Dave Douglas Quintet - Owens

Dave Douglas Quintet with Donny McCaslin, Uri Caine, James Genus, and Clarence Penn. This is…


Dave's Workshop / Our Space on Myspace

I thought I would extend the invitation to anyone in Chicago to come up to Northwestern University…


Illuminations of the Cellar Door: Miles Davis

I was listening to Miles Davis' 1970 recordings from the Cellar Door, a space in Washington, DC.…


Meaning and Mystery

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What We Are Doing

Many thanks to those of you who have purchased my new quintet recording, Meaning and Mystery. As we…


Concept and Context : Nerdy Meditations on Freedom and Language in Jazz

This last summer I was given the opportunity to design and implement a music theory curriculum for…


Glenn Kotche

Hello again, all. If I were forced to make a list of my favorite drummers, and they had to be in an…


Dave Douglas - Leaving Autumn

"Leaving Autumn" is one of five extra tracks recorded at the Meaning and Mystery session that were…


Adam Ribs

And also -- Adam Benjamin tells me he still disagrees about the below post, Free Country, and is…


Blue Latitudes

I will be heading to the U.K. next week for the first performances of Blue Latitudes with the…


Music Videos That Didn't Make MTV

It may be cliche to mention Steve Reich when talking about "strange" music, but I couldn't care…