As a habitual qualifier, I often preclude any statement of planning with “barring life’s vagaries”. Put another way, “Man makes plans? Nothing makes the gods laugh harder”, from the Yiddish adage “Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht” [“man plans, god laughs”].) …
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I do not recall the exact circumstances of my meeting musicologist Susan McClary in the early 80s. Then a professor at the University of Minnesota, she was, for a time, an ardent supporter of my work. Though ensconced in …
Following on from the last post*, I am indeed moving beyond my pandemic-induced ritual of solo (in both senses of the word) concerts 6 days a week. Having received the “refresher” booster of last fall’s vaccine**, I’ve scheduled and will …
As the pandemic continued/continues, I was/am occasionally asked when I’ll be opening Studio Toile D’Angles for sessions and concerts. (And, within the last couple months, along with two invitations for gigs, I had an inquiry from an anonymous person as …
A year or so before Covid hit, a dear friend/colleague attended a gig featuring another dear friend/colleague at a jazz-centric venue. There was a brief exchange with an older gentleman minding the door in part concerning free jazz. He said …
For close to 4 decades, Steve was my primary collaborator. In his words, from an unpublished interview (circa 1979):
“I first met Milo in late ’75 as the result of my knowing a guitarist and tenor player named Scott* who …
George Roberts – poet, visual artist (for example, the cover of Ananke), paper maker, hand typesetter, educator/mentor, co-owner/founder of Homewood Studios in North Minneapolis, and, in the best sense of the description, community advocate* – was unaware of free …