Fickle Ears

Musician and blogger Truan Savage has a bee in his bonnet about John Coltrane, as evidenced by several posts on his blog, Savage Music : T...

I am now located in Valencia, CA where I'll be working towards an MFA in the Performer-Composer program at the California Institute of t...

The following recent comments from two respected older jazz musicians both level an accusation towards jazz academia that I find somewhat su...

Yesterday, I discovered that the local Radio Shack (in the poor neighborhood) no longer stocks plain old headphones. Instead, they exclusive...

Here's a doodle that grew into a sketch and stumbled haphazardly to quasi-completion: Prelude for Three Listen (MP3) Download Score (PDF...

IDENTITY As a music student, I grew up with two contradictory pieces of advice which I was never able to reconcile. On one hand, as a future...

A non-musician music-lover I know blurted out the other day that his experiences with live music have been uniformly awful and his experienc...

I'm halfway through Peter Kivy's "Music Alone" and have therein unearthed one of my earliest philosophical fascinations (i...

After years of puzzled curiosity, I think I've finally figured it out: If the music sells well, it's Rock. This must be why so many ...

As a college student, I lost track of how many times I heard or overheard classmates assailing professors for being smart, as in: "He...

Hip-hop is the area of popular music (lower case, broadly construed) that has always piqued my interest disproportionately from all the othe...