The Ear of the Mind

I have A LOT of unread stuff in my RSS reader. One of the subscriptions I try to read regularly is The Atlanic 's culture feed, on whic...

Jazz Advice is the kind of website that I think the internet was made for. A wealth of good information from folks who know and it is inte...

Back to the discussion of Surface vs. Deep Structure in improvisation... In the last entry, I discussed distilling a transcribed line down t...

Haven't been around much lately...school's back in session. I came across the video below and had to share it. Such sage advice. ...

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...