1/31/13

Song Origins

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Last night went to my cousin's Wednesday night stomp dance practice at the local Creek Indian community center. I always learn something...
1/28/13

The Circle of Life and Death

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I walked out into Monday to balmy breezes and daffodils lifting up from the earth. It's too early but maybe our concept of early is shif...
1/21/13

We're Still Following the Music

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Reading Sidney Bechet's "Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography". I can hear an influence for Jean Toomer's  "Cane"--...
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Stepping into the Unknowing

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This morning--a new poem I followed beyond fear, the same fear every artist encounters when stepping into the unknowing. Now, if I owe you a...
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1/20/13

Shimmering Tree Being

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Fresh from dreaming:  I am taken to an incredible tree. The tree appeared to begin in the sky. It was so beautiful, ephemeral, a kind of l...
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1/14/13

Monday, Monday

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I was up late again working until past ten on a Sunday--Working twelve to fourteen hour days through the weekend and starting again on Monda...
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1/12/13

Constructing a Vision

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Up writing--in those moments between everything and now I saw the shape and trajectory of my play, We Were There When Jazz Was Invented. It...
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1/10/13

Ten P.M. Report

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Working through Charlie Parker "Anthropology" on horn (slower than Mr. Parker), and blues exercises on bass--studying the ori...
1/9/13

For my Tapa Notebook which will be part of the Tapa Notebook Series in the University of Auckland Library

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I am always taking notes. I am not faithful--to a particular notebook. I have a hand-sized notebook in turquoise leather, a...
1/3/13

Killing or Compassion

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Over 60,000 killed in Syria,killing in our schools, of our children, societal and environmental upheavals--We have so much to learn here and...