A number of horn players have influenced me as a Saxophone Player, among them Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Clarence Clemons, Bobby Keyes, Jay Beckenstein and David Sanborn, but by far the two that had th …

So, I've been writing a story for the past several months and it's been going nowhere. Last night I finally attributed it to the fact that I've been listening to the wrong music. My characters do not l …

Many people reckon The White Album could be cut down to make a really good single album. I rather like the fragmentary nature of it including all the filler tracks. With that in mind I have put togethe …

I will be adding on to this as the days progress.

iron maiden. rock. and stuff. i saw iron maiden here in ny thursday night. they opened the show by playing their new album, a matter of life and death , from beginning to end. The entire album. and whi …

So. I have this friend who is familiar with Tom Waits' newer stuff, but has hardly heard any of his older stuff. I decided to make him a mix of songs from Tom's early years (i.e., pre-Swordfishtrombone …

Reduced Johnny Cash's "Unearthed" boxset to one CD-R for a friend who wanted to get acquainted with Johnny Cash's music. Of course, this is only late-period JC, and therefore pretty heavy on covers - I …

And since I just uploaded a new single artist mix, here's another one I made not too long ago: a Replacements mix I made for a friend as a cop-out to his question which album of theirs he should check  …

A mix of my favourite Wrens songs. Before I realised that my new CD burner apparently can't handle overburning (and hence no 90 minute CD-Rs either), "Joneses Rules of Sport" and "Such a Pretty Lie" we …