Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.
- Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; J. K. Rowling)

Dave Brubeck is the last of the great jazz icons. Kenton, Getz, Davis, Gillespie, Coltrane…so many gone. And at 86 years of age, he plays as well as he ever has. Yesterday [...]

How cliché can you get? Being thankful on Thanksgiving and waxing ad nauseum about blessings, yadda, yadda, yadda… Woop-dee-doo. Let’s watch football.
Then again, I don’t have to gather firewood fearing I will be killed (or worse) by armed savages. I don’t have to rummage through the muck of a tsunami looking [...]

Over the years, I have not watched 60 Minutes all that much, but after reading about and watching the remembrances of Ed Bradley via YouTube and elsewhere, I now wish I have had. Bob Schieffer has called Ed Bradley the “coolest” reporter of them all. And from watching the many tributes via YouTube [...]

Oh, me, oh my, where I do I begin? Where, oh where should and shall I begin in describing what has been my chief non-musical hobby for the past six years? I might as well give you the same introduction to the Kingdom of Talossa as was given [...]

Well, whadduyah know, I’ve finally got my website up-and-running. I’ve talked about it long enough. Welcome, at long, long last, to my home on the internet!
Be it upcoming performances, where I’ll be for the release of the last of the Harry Potter books (whenever that comes about), or whatever else is going on in my [...]