On Patricia Goedicke
I will forever remember how fate guided a burst of Patricia Goedicke’s last words into my body. I had just hitch-hiked to the Bay Area from Missoula (where, I found out later, Goedicke taught for over 20 years).
Harmolodics, Zen, and Poesis: my triangular philosophy of improvisation.
Traditional European music has a hierarchy of harmony, melody, and rhythm, in that order. Traditional African music runs in the opposite order: rhythm supercedes melody, with harmony as a distant third concern.
COMA NYC Performance
The final COMA show at the old ABC No-Rio building at 156 Rivington St. The opening set with Allan Andre solo piano
Memorial Day
Today the vast social mechanism of a government holiday springs into motion, with its brief moment of reverence for U.S. military veterans who are generally ignored.
Ex Lo
Piano improvisation by Allan Andre. Recorded May 2, 2016. Photograph by Allan Andre.