Well my friends, it may take several years before we can return to pre-pandemic levels of activity. But little-by-little we’re getting back to business, ever grateful for the clients, customers, friends and fans who sustain us. This year we:
“The beginning of things is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!” —Kate Chopin
By summer’s end I’ve discovered much to love about living in Arizona.
“One day, you’ll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.” —Robert M. Drake
“I enjoyed the time out! I loved the fact that nobody had to achieve anything. And the light at the end of the tunnel is stressing me out.” —Neal Brennan
As a rule, professional bandleaders operate with neither job security nor a financial safety net. We work gig to gig, operating on the slimmest of margins, without salary or benefits. We aren’t eligible for unemployment and many of us cannot…
Damien Chazelle’s 2014 film Whiplash follows the fraught relationship between a brutally masochistic music teacher, Fletcher (J.K Simmons), and his ambitious student, drummer Andrew (Miles Teller).
According to Slate critic J. Bryan Lowder, “Fletcher and Andrew are both obsessed…
“Stars twinkle until they wrinkle.” —Victor Mature
That was well over 20 years ago. Since then I’ve weathered many career ups and downs, working both with and without the support of managers, agents, publicists and investors.
If Interlochen was an artist colony, Berklee was a star factory.
By the late 1980s, Berklee College of Music had established itself as a global center for music education, attracting talented students from all around the world. From its…