Mixed Meters

Can you use the human body as a percussion instrument?  Sure - hit it and it will make a little sound.  The body is just a big sack of meat ...

Peter, Lori, Cornel and Luis manage to play every crazy thing I throw at them.  I don't know how they do it. In this track, Waiting fo...

Last year I posted two tracks of my music as performed by the pianist Peter Schmid and his buddies .  They're as close to an all-psychic...

I don't remember what my first contact with Stanley Jason Zappa was, but I'm pretty sure it happened because we both write blogs.  S...

Here are two recordings made this summer by my buddies The Peter Schmid Trio. The trio is: Peter Schmid, piano Cornel Reasoner, bass Lu...

This is the first of two posts about how composer Richard Wagner has inspired popular music.   Jump to the other one. A few posts back I w...

A Los Angeles Sunday Times "Arts and Culture" article gave me pause. It's called Alexy Steele, Classical Underground Impresar...

Before you watch this video you might want to review Volume One of the trilogy as told in The Golia LaBerge Ocker Trio . In that post you ca...

No musician admits it out loud and a few probably don't even admit it to themselves, but every musician wants to get into the history bo...

There's something new happening at Mixed Meters: I'm getting offers of free things, review copies, freebies, swag - if I write abou...

Imagine my surprise to see an announcement that Art Tatum (1909-1956) would be performing live in a few days. This was in a consumer elect...

I turned on the car radio last month to the strains of Rhapsody in Blue. Ah, I thought "I must be listening to KUSC, LA's (one rem...