Archive for the ‘Chronicles’ Category
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Thelonious & Pannonica
10 Jan 2019Truth be told I’ve never really found books about jazz of much interest. The music is what I love.…
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Canada Coast to Coast [October 1979]
04 Nov 2018Stored away on the shelves of my workshop are hundreds of reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, dissolving, stuck together. Music from…
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Toronto Tales 5 [Hard Blues]
01 Sep 2018The adventure seems to have started somewhere early in 1974 – bands galore. Pianist Stuart Broomer a catalyst for my…
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Crossing The Bardo
11 May 2018Alan Douglas Neil March 26/1924 – November 16/2017 An Introduction Saturday, May 12th, is my 80th birthday, a surprise…
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Toronto Tales • Four [Looking Back 1958-1977]
18 Mar 2018Often the book I’m reading provides inspiration. Currently it’s John Banville’s “Time Pieces – A Dublin Memoir”. Early on he…
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Toronto Tales • Three [The Early Seventies]
16 Jan 2018Mister Mustard has requested that I reveal the time frame of my stories. This one takes place at the beginning…
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On The Wall #4
03 Dec 2013Familiars Felicity, born gullible, travelled to Tlor (The Land of Rules) gathering elusive knowledge and the curious skills of desire.…
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Albert Mangelsdorff – Never let it end
09 Nov 2013Several summers in the early sixties found me driving thousands of miles on American expressways, heading for the Newport…
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call it art
17 Aug 2013NEW YORK ART QUARTET 1964-1965 How fortuitous that I have a complete set of Coda Magazine back issues to use…
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Archie Shepp • Four For Trane
28 Jun 2013Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. Archie Shepp – 1990 …