Pullen at Destination: Out

Check out this beautiful appreciation of Don Pullen at Destination: Out, posted on August 2. All I can add is an emphatic, "Yes!" These are many of the same basic points of my thesis. Props to writers and proprietors Chilly Jay Chill and Prof. Drew LeDrew (not joking). Note: read the comments.

The Future of Jazz Scholarship

God help us all.



This is from Lewis's end-of-semester birthday party, starring Lucas, Luis, yours truly, Joe, Lewis, Darren, Lou, Tim, Lyn and Andrew. We played ping-pong and frisbee, and ate cake—it was the shiznit.



I did my best to keep a beat in a trio with Darren and Lewis, but I was in way over my head. But did I have fun, you ask? Yes. Yes I did.

Billie in Baltimore

I finished my Google Map for Billie Holiday's childhood in Baltimore. This is my semester project for Lewis Porter's Billie Holiday and Lester Young class. Using Stuart Nicholson's research, I plotted as many significant addresses as I could find on a present-day map of Baltimore, and drove around and took pictures of the properties, and wrote comments about the whole experience. Google Maps is extraordinary, by the way. I recommend viewing this map with Firefox.