Settled In Shipping

I’ve found this little CD store in Miami , underneath Marshall ’s. On first glance it’s rather unimpressive – Marvin Gaye is filed into thei...

Unlike Pat , I haven’t found it easy to blog from the ship. Oddly enough, I’m on his original Cruise Ship X, with some of the same band memb...

To commence my packing for the cruise ship, I tackled the most arduous part of it: the media I'll be sequestered with for nearly three m...

My first post on the connectons between music and language was more metaphorical and abstract in nature, treating genres or styles as langua...

I have finished class time as an undergrad. All that remains is my final performance exam on April 19. Then I'm off on a cruise ship unt...

Via DJA : Jackie McLean and Don Alias both passed away this week. I'm not nearly as familiar with Jackie's music as I should be, whi...

Via aurgasm.us : South by Southwest attendees and panelists give middlemen the middle digit . There are these industries of middlemen - RIAA...

Last night, I attended cellist Matt Haimovitz's first concert in a series of three, entitled Goulasch! The series' overarching theme...

Last weekend, I went to see Dave Chappelle's Block Party . I'm not a hip-hop aficionado, but I'm a fan of the Roots (who serve a...

The Indigone Trio + Strings recital was a resounding success. Thanks to Irwin Block for promoting the show in the Gazette (we were a Best Be...

The hour is soon approaching... Indigone Trio + Strings David Ryshpan - piano Alex Mallett - bass Liam O'Neill - drums Jeffrey Dyrda - v...

So many things on the go right now. I just spent most of this week - which has ostensibly been my "break" - playing on McGill jazz...

It seems that amid all the "Montreal-is-the-new-Seattle" pants-wetting (thank you, Arcade Fire) that happened last year, domestic ...

Back on the 10th, Kweku & The Movement opened for Throwback at a just-opened venue called Le National Music Hall. It's a converted...

Kweku & The Movement (in which I play keyboards) are opening for Throwback (Montreal funky-folk-rock, see today's Montreal Gazette...

I got involved with CKUT and Jazz Euphorium at the beginning of 2004, slowly immersing myself in the world of collective college/community...

(x-posted to the Official Jazz Euphorium Blog ) To kick off Black History Month, Jazz Euphorium will profile the history and influence of th...

John Adams - The Chairman Dances Darcy James Argue - Live at Bowery Poetry Club, 01/20/2006 Bob Brookmeyer & New Art Orchestra - Waltzi...

I'm in my senior year of my Bachelor's degree, and my elective courses in both semesters have been French and Linguistics. My schedu...

Friday was the day we'd all been waiting for. I wound up taking a different bus into town, and whereas the commute took half an hour on...