Your itinerant correspondent is back from the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, catching his breath, attacking stacks of mail and, generally, taking care of business. We'll have a final installment about the festival in the next posting, probably tomorrow. In the meantime, a diversion. A serious … [Read more...]
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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. -- Richard Strauss I don't conside myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. -- Thelonious Monk … [Read more...]