Help fund the fabulous GLITTER & MADNESS anthology from Apex Publications! Bill makes a pitch for your donation within the next two days, then reads a story request, "Care and Feeding of Your Piano."
My virtual contribution to the December CD Mix of the Month Club was Street Cred: Brad Mehldau Plays the Popular Favorites of Yesterday and Today!.
Sunday evening █████ and I went to see jazz trio The Bad Plus play at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. First of all, that theater on Lincoln Avenue is a great place to see a show—comforable, intimate, and acoustically welcoming (though it would be even better
Jazz shakuhachi? That's what we heard tonight at the Shinjuku Pit Inn, one of Tokyo's legendary jazz clubs, and Doi Keisuke's playing was awe-inspiring. But the real revelation of the evening, to us anyway, was Akiko Grace, whose piano trio anchored the evening'
Bill the Piano Mover was quick and efficient, but it was still a sad morning: Treat her well, Zach!
My contribution to the August CD Mix of the Month Club, celebrating its one-year solo anniversary last night with a fabulous house party in Sunset Park, was Deep Cover, with 88 Keys to My Heart generously thrown in as a 38th birthday bonus. [Ed. note (2025): In the Spotify playlist
I thought I had misheard Monday when █████ told me. "What?" I whooped. "Brian, our hairdresser, has offered us an upright piano," she repeated. "Free. All we have to do is get it moved. Should I turn him down?" "No, no, no, no, no!
After sawing and pounding and power-tooling away all night and all day, the people upstairs have apparently finished building themselves a piano. Five and a half blissful years of peace and quiet in this apartment, and now there's suddenly someone playing bad music badly on an instrument that&
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