wept
Before I move on to the 2000’s I have to mention the goth-rock-avante-jazz band that I helped found in 1986 and played in until 1993…
4-track
the blind piano tuner
jack sprinkle was a talented, blind piano technician that for years would tune our family’s small upright and make it sound like a grand. one day i played him thelonious monk’s ‘straight no chaser’ and asked him to help me get that thick smashing of chords while keeping the clarity of the high solo runs. […]
shadow men
just when i was about to step forward into 1989, a lost recording from 1986 emerges… ‘shadow men’ was recorded live with myra pearson who performed the sensual voice and wrote the mysterious poetry. myra was just beginning her jazz career in dc and we all thought she was super cool playing smoky clubs that […]
resonance
[1987] Resonance extends the direction of Animus with improvisation-based compositions that explore external themes of nature and industrialization…
animus
[1986] One of the original albums on the then all home-grown, all-cassette label Xarrier, Animus was an early foray into the creative limits…
recycle bin
Sometimes the extra songs and sounds that were never placed within an album become like stray cats. They wander through the…