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In a 1990s interview, someone asked Branford Marsalis what he thought of fellow saxophonist Greg Osby's work. At the time, Osby was known for, among o...

Last weekend, Ms. Fretboard was winding up the troops about the world slowly opening back up again. "We're gonna be able to do this!" she was telling ...

En route to school a few days ago, the Dauphin aired his disgruntlement with his friends' taste in art. He's obsessed with Magic The Gathering, a fant...

I've never been much of a hand for the latest sounds, but now, when I take my daughter to school or pick her up from one of her few quarantine-sanctio...

Building solos
And devising
Licks to play while
Improvising

Doesn't have to
Feel so messy
Or disorganized
Or guess-y

Focusing on
Just one key and
Pl...

My friend Ron once said "You're either onstage, backstage, or in the audience. I'm the kind of person who has to be backstage." I totally get his drif...

The room just above me freshman year was home to the fastest typist around. In that antediluvian era, this housemate of mine made a fair amount of rea...

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