After the Harvest

For a number of years, I have a noticed a trend in the pace of quantity of gig opportunities around this time of year – things slow down. If I was playing for a living, I’d be scrambling for gigs, signing up students and demanding pay for my weekly column on the...

Afternoon Delight

(Editor’s Note–13 years ago, when I received an email from a guy name Robert Schwartz, a stranger and self-identified CBA newcomer, Mr. Schwartz asked me to consider using it for a guest Welcome Column. I began reading it without any hint of where the...

Afternoon Delight

Editor’s Note–So, where does time go? Seriously, is there some cloud-based vault that each of us, at least once in our life, has dimly suspected…hoped really…was an eternal safe house where every moment of every eon was stored and catalogued and kept in...

Afternoon Delight

(Note from the editor: So, where does time go? Seriously, is there some cloud-based vault that each of us, at least once in our life, has dimly suspected…hoped really…was an eternal safe house where every moment of every eon was stored and catalogued and kept in...

Afternoon Delight

So this is how it starts: with a simple, deceiving phone call to my wife. I told her I’d be in an afternoon meeting and would be unreachable the rest of the day. I hoped that I sounded convincing. The truth was I had arranged — by email — a secret...