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When The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it flipped pretty much everyone out. The kids loved it. The adults hated it. Frank Zappa thought that it was stolen from side four of Freak Out!. Brian Wilson went into a depression, followed by a brilliant retaliation in the form [...]

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First thing’s first: thank God for the Muppets. I mean that less in a religious sort of way and more as a way of acknowledging that if it weren’t for the Muppets, I might have spent my spare time watching The Facts of Life or Silver Spoons. Or the news. Anyway, the [...]

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Been out on the road a bit this week with some great gigs in upstate NY. Massive very hip things happening in the music industry including:
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One of my favorite blogs (yes, I’m a subscriber) is The Good, The Bad and the Unknown. Today, J. Paul posted a list of The Top 11 Jazz Albums Everyone Should Own. It’s a really challenging endeavor to come up with a top 50, or a top 100, so getting it down to [...]

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Time for a quick update on things extra-musical, just to keep you in the loop.
First thing’s first: I won. Really. I won. I actually won something. And it’s not just something, but a very groovy book. And I didn’t win it from just anybody, I won it from Contest Blogger, [...]

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Please don’t take the relative quiet on the blog front as the beginning of the end. It’s been a very very interesting couple of weeks and just keeping tabs on everything has been more of a challenge than usual. I still have some pieces in the works that are going to absolutely rock. [...]

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As I said yesterday, I have been working on a few larger pieces, and that’s really where my time has been spent recently. But I have also been working on a few final structural things. After a few very, very scary moments, I think I finally have things up and running smoothly. [...]

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