Insignificant Bits

Welcome to 2026.

A year ago I wrote about composing a solo on All the Things You Are and it still remains the jazz standard that I have the most comfort with.

Just to make it clear where I stand on this not at all difficult moral question: deporting people without due process is, in every case, wrong.

Latest transcription is Scrapple.

I have been using a paid phone app that shall remain nameless for practicing outlining jazz chords on guitar.

I forgot to mention in the previous post on On Green Dolphin Street that one reason I liked the song was due to a version on a Tito Puente compilation in which there is some stratospheric trumpet work.

For the last month I’ve been working on and off on the transcription of Cannonball Adderly’s first chorus of On Green Dolphin Street.

The album Sonny Side Up, featuring both Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins, is fire, and Sonny Stitt’s chorus from On the Sunny Side of the Street is hard to beat.

The path of totality of the April 8, 2024 eclipse just barely missed our house, so I did what any extremely normal person would do: booked a hotel 4 months in advance two hours west of here, pre-ordered a dozen eclipse glasses, and then took a day off of…

New transcription: another Parker blues, Billie’s Bounce.