Marco Parisi plays Prince’s “Purple Rain” on the Seaboard RISE…NAMM 2017

Great Song….Amazing performance on an instrument I’d never seen before. Goodness…. … Continue reading

björk: human behavior

When you say “recording artist”, people don’t usually mean what they’re saying. Most music these days just seems to be “product”…produced by people programmed to make music that fits a demographic…with only the goal of making money behind it. In … Continue reading

I Know a Star…

I brought our Great Pyrenees, Appa, his food this morning and stood out with him for a while…visiting and looking at the sky. It’s Christmas Day….and the sky is full of stars. We don’t live in a place without light. … Continue reading

Esperanza Spalding: “Overjoyed”

Here’s Esperanza Spalding playing one of my favorite Stevie Wonder songs… It’s Christmas…and this isn’t really a “Christmas song”….but…isn’t any love song a “Christmas song”? Maybe it’s OK…overjoyed at the birth of the Christ child and the season that should … Continue reading

“Skating away….skating away…skating away on the thin ice of a new day….”

Kids….don’t do this at home. This is pretty crazy….thin ice….skating. What a combo…and…what a crazy sound. Here’s some Jethro Tull. Different sound…but…good. … Continue reading