All About Jazz
August 14, 2025 On their 30th (!) anniversary, it is a real joy to be featured in All About Jazz’s “Meet the Staff” section. This brief little interview managed to capture a lot of my attitudes and philosophies.
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Musicians Fear AI For All the Right Reasons. And All the Wrong Headlines
From Toronto to Australia, musicians are leaving streaming platforms over AI policies that treat machine output as equivalent to human creativity. The music press covers technology fears while missing the economic exploitation driving artist exodus. The music industry’s AI fear is absolutely justified. But the music press is covering the wrong story. While publications run…
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Remember that you are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic.
I did not coin this phrase, but I love it as a way to counter self-pity. It’s easy to feel like things happen to you rather than with you. The party was boring, but you didn’t really try to make it better. The relationship ended badly, but you mostly avoided the difficult conversations that might…
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Downbeat Critics Poll
This year marks the first time I have been invited to participate in the Downbeat Magazine Annual Critics Poll (their 73rd!). I barely consider myself a journalist and certainly not a critic but it was really a hoot to be asked to to this. Information about the issue with the results can be found here.
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Adopt A Station / Rescue Public Media
adoptastation.org “Congress has voted to rescind public media’s funding. Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a station.”
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That Canadian Magazine
“Proudly Canadian, about Canadian Music that Impacts the World” Read my work on That Canadian Magazine
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The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll — Mid-Year
It was a treat and an honor to have my picks included in The Mid-Year Edition of the Francis Davis Jazz Poll. I do not submit my picks ranked. The order they are listed does not imply order of preference. Here they are: NEW ALBUMS Kinan Azmeh and CityBand, Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido) →…
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All About Jazz
by All About Jazz Staff, July 2, 2025 As we hit the halfway mark of 2025, All About Jazz has adopted Major League Baseball’s All-Star break approach but swapping homers for albums. Their team of 55 writers convened to name their top three albums of the year so far, with Mary Halvorson’s About Ghosts (Nonesuch)…
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Burning Dervish
My project Burning Dervish creates electro-acoustic ambient music and soundscapes using a mixture of process, rules, prompts, found sounds, improvisation, and composition. Full-Length Albums Compilation Appearances Playlist Placements
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Musicians and the Ancient Mysteries
Sound carries more than melody and rhythm. It is a transmission medium for consciousness across time and space. Time is not what most people think it is. Ancient mystery schools knew this millennia ago, teaching initiates that we experience time through consciousness, not some external clock. Musicians have stumbled back onto this truth through their…
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Scenes from a Protest
Over 5,000 show up in Renton to say ‘No Kings’ by Bailey Josie, Kent Reporter “Covering one-third of a mile, from the Top Golf to the edge of the parking lot at The Landing, with the corners of Logan Avenue and North 10th Street serving as the nucleus, Renton held its “No Kings” protest where…
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All About Jazz
Contributor Since September 24, 2011 All About Jazz has been the web’s preeminent outlet for coverage of jazz and adjacent musics since launching in 1995. My articles, reviews and member profile on All About Jazz.
