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  • Anthony Braxton • Toronto 1973

    02 Jun 2020

    June 4th is Anthony Braxton’s 75th birthday, so in celebration I’ve posted this 47 year-old story told in his own…

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  • Homemade Standards • The Legend of Duck Soup

    30 Apr 2020

    Every year, on May Day, a spectre comes to haunt us. The spectre of Karl Marx. He’s been coming since…

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  • Toronto Tales 6 • 1985-86

    01 Apr 2019

      I’ve always been enamoured of the extravagant past, art forms arriving or creating timely situations, often aligned with political…

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  • A Complete Communion

    21 Feb 2019

      Paris • March 1967 One thing about us English is that we’re proud of being uni-lingual, assuming that everyone…

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  • Thelonious & Pannonica

    10 Jan 2019

      Truth 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 2018

    Stored 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 2018

    The 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 2018

      Alan 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 2018

    Often 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 2018

    Mister Mustard has requested that I reveal the time frame of my stories. This one takes place at the beginning…

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