Archive for the ‘Chronicles’ Category
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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 …
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John Tchicai • Smoke Signals
12 Apr 2013Now is the time to know that all you do is sacred – Hafiz There was a time when travelling…
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On The Wall #3
11 Mar 2013Lol Coxhill In the Ear of the Beholder 19th September, 1932 – July 10, 2012 When I fled Toronto all those…
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On The Wall #2
28 Dec 2012Before they brown into oblivion the scanner has captured the old photographs that were fading on the wall, too…
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Heart’s Vibrations
30 Nov 2012Hazel Miller, the producer of Ogun recordings and the wife of the late Harry Miller, invited me alongside Louis…