Daily Archives: September 24, 2009

A mini-commonplace II.

I don’t understand this talk of Coltrane being difficult to understand. What he does, for example, it to play five notes of a chord and then keep changing it around, trying to see how many different ways it can sound. … Continue reading

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Links and reactions to "Goodbye to All Them."

Lots of love on the Facebook, and some lovely letters from friends old and new.  I am glad people are reading this–I worked really hard on it.  I cut out about half of the writing of this essay, which seemed … Continue reading

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