Archive for January, 2009
Thinking of Miles
By csocci - Last updated: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Miles Davis is quoted as having said that a note or a musical idea isn’t wrong until you play the next note. His statement was about context – it is the relationship of that note to the music that follows it that makes it wrong or right. This concept is very important to an improviser, [...]
Time Machine
By csocci - Last updated: Sunday, January 18, 2009
My son Alex asked me a question the other day, “What super power would you like to have?”… It is an interesting question… My first thought was that it’d be pretty cool if I could fly… Then I thought it would be pretty cool if I could be invisible; but on second thought the idea [...]