03 February 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (vii): "fuck prejudice!"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) – (iv) – (v) – (vi) ] [SK] Just one thought this time, regarding the academy broadly con...
02 February 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (vi): "a desolate marketplace"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) – (iv) – (v) ] [SK] I think there are many shades of grey on the autodidacticism spectrum...
01 February 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (v): "the wherewithal to examine it ruthlessly"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) – (iv) ] [SK] You're absolutely correct that versatility has been co-opted, and in qui...
31 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (iv): "if you don't like the world, change yourself"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) ] [SK] Not that it's of much consequence, but I guess I should clarify what I meant abo...
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30 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (iii): "a smattering of constants"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) ] [SK] The delivery of a consistent product does seem to be a non-negotiable demand of "careeri...
28 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (ii) – "*every* survival strategy is fraught with pitfalls"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) ] [SK] At the risk of both lapsing into cliches and miring us unduly deep in the critical theory labyrinth, ...
27 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (i): "illuminating another course of action"

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[Previously: Foreword ] [SK] So, I didn't have to read too far before a conversation starter presented itself: "[The New River...
26 January 2014

Interview Exchange with Milo Fine: Foreword

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Milo Fine is a Minneapolis-based multi-instrumentalist improvisor with whom I have had the great pleasure of both making and discussing musi...
19 January 2014

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31 October 2013

BM6 In 'n' Outro: Staying Power

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We've made it. Here we are. Settings have been appropriately toggled so as to display the entire opus on the front page, though it seems...
30 October 2013

Choice Nuggets As Always From G.E.L.

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George E. Lewis deals to New Music Box: I was communicating and trying to reflect at the same time how else to communicate. I began to de...
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29 October 2013

Driving The bus (ii)

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Is it me or has the pitch of the jazz drum set, like concert pitch itself, been steadily rising over the years? Some of these snare drums th...
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Driving The Bus (i)

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Since moving to SoCal I've had the pleasure of meeting, hearing, and playing with a staggering number of outstanding jazz bass players. ...
28 October 2013

All Ages

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Another point brought home by regular attendance at The Blue Whale : young people are capable of making great music, prodigies can sometimes...
27 October 2013

French Theory taking a beating at PostClassic

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Get in on the melee here .
26 October 2013

Weirdest Email Ever

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It isn't often that you get an email from an organization of which you only think you have ceased to be a member advertising an event at...
25 October 2013

whaling oops

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So...perhaps there's something about October, much as I claim it as Blog Month's rightful calendrical home, that makes it difficult ...
23 October 2013

Large Whole-Number Ratios

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I was reminded recently of a certain inconvenient fact about my master's degree: As the graduation ceremony program shows, the CalArt...