Archive for the ‘Chronicles’ Category
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Hornby Island’s 5th Annual “Virtual” Herring Festival
06 Mar 2021March 4th – 6th, 2021 Join the virtual celebration of Pacific herring! Introduction by Grant Scott followed by musical…
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Anthony Braxton • Toronto 1973
02 Jun 2020June 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 2020Every 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 2019I’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 2019Paris • 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 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…