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#15: Avant-Garde for Wimps (Like Me)

#15: Avant-Garde for Wimps (Like Me)0:00/2001× I'll never dive fully into the avant-garde, but dipping my feet in that pool can be quite exhilarating! Powered by Firstory Hosting

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#14: Sad Movie Theme Gone Bad

#14: Sad Movie Theme Gone Bad0:00/2001× Why am I a lousy film composer? Could it be because I'm a composer? Powered by Firstory Hosting

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#13: The Avant Garde Jazz for Dummies Episode

#13: The Avant Garde Jazz for Dummies Episode0:00/2001× You may hate the avant-garde but, dammit, you need it more than you think. Powered by Firstory Hosting

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Episode #12: The Emperor Has New Clothes

Episode #12: The Emperor Has New Clothes0:00/2001× A bluesy improvisation on the theme from the slow movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto inevitably leads me down the path of the inevitability of noninevitability. Powered by Firstory Hosting

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Episode #11: Art ± Technology = Art

Episode #11: Art ± Technology = Art0:00/2001× My recording equipment was flipping out (or maybe It was me). Which may seem like a hindrance to artistic expression , but then I realized that the flipping out was part of the flipping art! Powered by Firstory Hosting

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Episode #10: This is A Blues?

Episode #10: This is A Blues?0:00/2001× What is a blues? A genre? Musical form? A scale? It's all of those things and more because the blues is a fundamental musical structure with infinite possibilities for making musical statements. Which I find out here... Powered by

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Episode #9: Not What I Intended

Episode #9: Not What I Intended0:00/2001× When a free improvisation doesn't go the way I planned it leads me to the conclusion that sometimes the best-laid plans are the unlaid plans. Powered by Firstory Hosting

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#8: Everything is Related to Everything Else...and so what

#8: Everything is Related to Everything Else...and so what0:00/2001× Melodies aren't infinite, so don't sue me if my tune "sounds" somewhat like "yours." Powered by Firstory Hosting

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#7-Fear of Musical Simplicity, Part #0

#7-Fear of Musical Simplicity, Part #00:00/2001× The last episode was a rant in defense of musical complexity; this one , of course, takes the opposite view. Sort of. Powered by Firstory Hosting

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#6: Fear of Musical Complexity, Part 1

#6: Fear of Musical Complexity, Part 10:00/2001× Part 1 of a rant (that will undoubtedly have many parts) on why we are so afraid of musical complexity. Powered by Firstory Hosting

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#0: Trailer (show overview)

#0: Trailer (show overview)0:00/2001× A quick overview of what you'll hear on "Improvisations on the Ledge"... Powered by Firstory Hosting

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#5: Inappropriate Chords For Church - 4-28-19

#5: Inappropriate Chords For Church - 4-28-190:00/2001× A simple hymn-like tune gone wrong...because that's what I do. Powered by Firstory Hosting