Not my fault, none of my posts are unlikable.

Students not showing so self-flagellating on this Good Friday by forcing myself to learn the G# major scale as well as possible.

When my quarter tone music from 2013 was released in 2021 it came with a little booklet with lyrics and sheet music. I also wrote a bit about how I used the two guitars, how I arrived at that solution and other possibilities.

Lo-fi prog: phonautographrecords.bandcamp.com/album/numps-ii

Home style vegetables with bamboo shoot, bok choy, red bell pepper, pork and chives. Super good. Even the chili averse among us liked it despite the pixian doubanjiang.

Picked these up today. Not thrifting, though. My wife wanted to go to a record/book store after lunch which is, of course dangerous because I picked up some more Sonny Rollins.

Awww, man, I haven't cut myself cooking is SO LONG! The streak is broken!

I'm at the place again. Incredible.

It does not surprise me, because I come from more or less the same culture as these guys, that they're big Gentle Giant fans. We love that shit.

Doing some prepared piano stuff with a student tonight.

Ooooo, new Jeff Parker ETA IVtet? youtu.be/MuBzcDl8t-k?...

CD Esoterik EPISODE 18: Eliane Radigue 01.24.1932 - 02.23.2026 is now available wherever you get your experimental music podcasts #musicsky

Haven't seen a Devin Booker game like this in a while.

This week's AM on @cjsw.bsky.social: Does the late-March snow have you down? At least we have music. mellower tracks for a little well-earned wallowing, and sunnier sounds to melt away some of the (hopefully not perma)frost. Hope you enjoy. Streaming links: theam.ca/post/8125593...

I'm gonna Home Style the shit out of everything this week.

Today's thrift finds.

New on MusicRadar, an appreciation of Angine de Poitrine which I use as an excuse to talk about the history of tuning www.musicradar.com/guitars/they...

A+ lo-fi jazz: youtu.be/5WUd1X_fuBY?...

RIO amigos - i need help

Learned Monk's Off Minor yesterday and found that I recalled everything today with no trouble. Now, that doesn't mean there were no mistakes! I wanted to write the title on the board behind me but none of the markers here work.

This took me several days to get through but every time I checked in it was such a soothing experience. youtu.be/hlntxsynqqw?...

I know this looks like a mess but I stopped by my favourite Sri Lankan place today and got some spinach vadas so I made some dal with squash and coconut milk and it's super delicious.

It's almost comforting having a panic attack at this point. After just feeling weird all day without being able to pin it on anything finally having one is like "Ahhh, yes, I know this."

Let's see what I can turn up today.

It's crazy that we'd never heard drum 'n bass at this point in the late 90s growing up in rural eastern Ontario but we did this anyway: phonautographrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ensemb...

Who posted this? It's been an open tab for a few days and I forget where I heard about it. It's awesome! The cover of Be My Head is great: chupamanga.bandcamp.com/album/cintur...

My favourite Will Oldham album is still his first.

Ever wondered what Miles Davis sounded like before he lost his voice? lewisporter.substack.com/p/new-years-...

Loungin'

Today's thrift finds. A Spanish 10cc comp, Portuguese fado and Bill Callahan.

Just got a nice message through the Free Music Archive so I went and had a look at my music on there. I hadn't checked in in ages so I was quite surprised to see that this album has been listened to over 48 thousand times! freemusicarchive.org/music/Expwy/...

Transcribed this Jackie McLean altered dominant thing.

I wrote this

Day job has exploded a bit so I haven’t shared the past two episodes, but rest assured they did happen and are streaming at cjsw.com/program/the-.... Apple Music & Spotify playlists will update soon.

11pm start time for the Suns game. Brutal.

Learning some Monk tunes today. Since I'm playing an Eb instrument I find I'm learning better because I have to transpose everything from concert pitch. It's sticking more because had to do all that work. There's a practice hack for you!

Oh man, I made a really good soup tonight. I made a chicken and chickpea soup with goat yogurt a while back that was really great so I tried outage vegan version with coconut milk. I used panch phoron, black and green cardamom, cumin and coriander powders, curry and fenugreek leaves, lemon juice.

Really weird to see the Canadian Tire logo on the Phoenix Suns court.

Lots of great alto playing on this one. Great rhythm section.

Learned Monk's Criss Cross.

I think they just played Angine De Poitrine before the commercial break on the Habs Sportsnet broadcast?

The new Fender Plastercaster

Wrote a short note about @intlanthem.bsky.social (who rule!) and the need for a politics of independent music.

Why you should transcribe jazz solos even if you're not a jazz musician.

An awesome live recording of Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Jimmy Garrison and Paul Motian: open.substack.com/pub/lewispor...

Oh, Canada! Happy to announce that The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit is now available on Prime Video in Canada (with optional French subtitles). If you live in the Great Hite North, please check out the film and spread the word. Here's a link:

Decided to take a look for the earliest Angine De Poitrine video on YouTube I could find and JUST when I thought they couldn't be more Quebecois... youtu.be/Uo4U0zGDZHc?...

Started to open up my violin case and saw this. Scared the crap out of me! Fortunately it was just a broken bow hair.