I overheard two depressing conversations recently. One was on the streetcar, where a man was introducing his companion to another friend. The companion asked the friend, “what do you do?” and she replied, “I’m in development. I work for a company marketing solar panels.” The other conversation was in a coffee-shop, and one fellow was […]
The days of King Arthur, Parsifal, the Crusades: all these and more will be woven together as Story and Song Night returns. On Tuesday May 8th, at 8:30 pm, John Russon will tell the story of the Quest for the Holy Grail. This inauguration of the new season of stories and songs will also feature […]
This Wednesday, April 4, the John Russon Quintet will be releasing our new CD! The CD is called “Joint Attention,” and it features 9 original tunes that the band has been performing for the past few years. The band is Tom Richards: trombone Chris Gale: saxophone John Russon: guitar Mike Milligan: bass Nick Fraser: drums […]
The issue of “getting it right” is an important one in human life. This notion of “right” however, can be interpreted in a number of different ways, and it makes a great deal of difference how we understand this notion. It makes all the difference whether we “get it right” about “getting it right.” If […]
This Wednesday, February 8, the John Russon Quintet will perform at the Tranzac Club. We’ll play from 10 pm until midnight. The band is: Chris Gale, saxophone John Russon, guitar Mike Milligan, bass Nick Fraser, drums We’ll play tunes from our freshly mastered CD, and a few new ones. The Tranzac Club is at 292 […]
January 28: Pamenar Cafe David French, John Russon, Mike Milligan, Nick Fraser January 24: Holy Oak Cafe–Welcome Back Chris Gale! Chris Gale, John Russon, Chris Banks, Morgan Childs January 23: The Central Rebecca Hennessy, John Russon, Michael Herring, Blake Howard
Though there are smaller examples from earlier times in history, it is the British East India Company that is usually thought of as the first great “joint-stock company,” and it is shortly after its founding around 1600 that the “stock market” began in Amsterdam. The basic idea of the joint-stock company is simple: a number […]
We often have a sense of pride in a product that we have made, and the effort we put into forming the thing gives us a sense of ownership. After years of practice with the soccer ball and the playing field, I feel on the “inside” of soccer, I feel that soccer is “my thing.” […]
Music is essentially about time, about the way a note or a beat picks up on those that went before and sets up those that will come after. A metronome responds to this essential temporality. It produces a rigid beat to which a musician can refer in order to hold firmly to the temporal “skeleton” […]