The Ear of the Mind

H ere is a link to a great link to an interview with saxophonist Walt Weiskopf. Walt is a great modern player whose ideas about hexatonics...

Please permit me a brief step away from discussions of Deep Structure and Improvisation. Many will have heard of Pastor Terry Jones' pl...

Sonny Rollins turns 80 today! Happy Birthday, Newk!!!!! See NPR's story here .

Some amazing playing from 1967...

In my previous post, I spoke a bit about surface structure and deep structure, their linguistic implications, and how they may apply to impr...

I have been going between two different approaches in my practicing lately. The first is a very traditional approach to learning to improvi...

Great writing and playing on "Walkin' Shoes"