The Great George Cables It's Jazz Festival Time here in Portland, Oregon. This is a very exciting week. There is a lot going on, ...

I stumbled across this from a Huffington Post article from 2010: Musician and author Patti Smith had some sound advice for fledgling ar...

 I think the Wayne Shorter controversy has run it's course. It has come to my attention that the young man who said terrible things a...

LOVE Wayne Shorter....... Facebook is quite miraculous in many ways. The explosion of social networking in cyberspace has changed peop...

Do you Skype?(By that, I mean USE Skype the software, but Skype is now a verb, wise guy.) If you don't, you are probably still living...

One of my advanced students asked me a question recently, via the electronic mail: Dear Great and Magnanimous Professor and Exalted Wi...