Well, maybe not just jazz. The content here could range anywhere from information on my wacky acoustic jazz ensemble (the Industrial Jazz Group) to general music-related stuff (reviews of what I'm listening to, comments on the state of the art, and so on) to politics to pop culture to parenthood. Yeah, that just about covers it.
"They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal."
Televangelist Pat Robertson, on the January 2010 Haitian earthquake
"Haiti had been terra incognita to most Americans, though it was only six hundred miles away. As the first black republic, founded in 1804 after Toussaint L'Ouverture's revolt in 1791, it had been seen as a frightful omen by the slave states. Southerners spoke with dread of a 'second Haiti' [...]"
George Black, The Good Neighbor
"Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There’s not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man’s unconquerable mind."
...is a hack composer and pseudo-intellectual living in Portland, OR. His main project is the wacky LA-based acoustic jazz monstrosity, the Industrial Jazz Group. He has scored several films and videos, including the award winning shorts "Fish" and "Lunch" by Sarah Jane Shute. He was once a member of the now-defunct NJ vocal ensemble, the Evelyn Situation. Some folks also claim that he has written a rock opera, a screenplay, and an innovative arrangement of Stephen Sondheim's score for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He studied composition with his CD Player, and before that, with his turntable.
Durkin's doctoral dissertation, Decomposition: a Critique of Musical Authorship and Authenticity, may be published someday. (We've seen it, and it's a little high-falutin' for our taste.) In any case, he likes to write words as well as sounds, and occasionally he pokes at a collection of essays entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Linear.
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