The cover art for my album handmade was actually provided by my wife. She made me an incredible quilt. Now, I took a photo of it when I got it, but it is a big file. I'll take you via link to my Wordpress blog, where I posted a short article about it that very day; this is convenient, because ...  read more

On this day, I purchased a work of art, a drawing created by one of my former physics students. I plan on making it the artwork for my third Jamendo album.  [Note:  as of the date of this post, not a single track has been recorded for this -- it is in the planning stages, and in the ...  read more

Killarney Star released an album on this day, Starfish, with me on bass and my friend Andy Anderson on drums.  Our CD release party was at a club downtown called The Atlantic. Oh, man, is this ever a story. Kaley, a.k.a. Killarney Star, wrote and arranged all the music the band perform...  read more

My second album, apocrypha, was published on DMusic.  This was a compilation of earlier material I recorded during the same time period as evolution (my first album, published on Jamendo). The irony of taking so long to decide to publish my music on the internet was that I generated a LOT...  read more

My first Jamendo album, evolution, was released on this date. It was a leap of faith for me to bring my music to the Internet.  Before this date, I had only played in other bands; releasing my solo work, which, admittedly, is unusual, took me a long time to decide to do. This first alb...  read more

My second Jamendo album, handmade, was released on this date. I named this album handmade because all the rhythms were performed using hand percussion instruments: three conga drums, two maracas, and a cowbell.  Against this background I have highly melodic improvisation, jazzy chords, an...  read more

Today, I finished FAWM (February Album Writing Month):  I wrote and recorded 14 songs in 18 days.  [ If the FAWM links go down, as they will at the end of March 2007, you can still listen to the music from this project at DMusic.]  read more

This is the first time I've felt as if I've pioneered in a particular nugget of information in one of my favorite wiki destinations. It turns out that an album I was playing this afternoon did not have an entry for it on Last.fm. So I created it. In researching the entry, I came across only one o...  read more

I can remember this like it was yesterday. Sidney Kwiram asked me to teach her about Rock'n'Roll. She had been brought up on music but hadn't been exposed to anything by classical music. I think she may have even been home-schooled. The thing about Sidney is that once you think you know her, yo...  read more