The Giant Steps Scratch Pad: As Crass a Plug as You’ll Ever Encounter Anywhere
BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! Never mind the rest of the gobbledegook on this page–just go to the bottom and start clicking on shopping carts. As for you less...
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Editing away with beaverish industriousness on a video interview I hope to post soon on this blog, I haven’t had time to mess with much of anything else. So heck, why not dig into my several years of...
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View ArticleMy July 27 Michigan Tornado Video, for What It’s Worth
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View ArticleDixieland for Cows
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View ArticleA Session with the Doc
This storm season of 2012 started with a bang but then rapidly fizzled into a pathetic whimper. Now summer is here, and with the mid-levels heating up and dewpoint depressions widening to the point...
View ArticleThings a Jazz Musician Never Hears Anyone Say
You see this? It’s a rare phenomenon in Michigan called “rain” (pronounced rayn). It began yesterday as a closed 500 mb low settled in over the state, and it looks like it will be with us for a while,...
View ArticleA View from the Air
I initially posted the following humorous piece without any preamble. It subsequently dawned on me that a brief introduction could serve one important purpose: preventing anyone from taking me...
View ArticleMini-Tornadoes: Defining a Microscale Mystery
In Europe they have mini-tornadoes. There was a time in my callow, formative years as a storm chaser when I was unaware that there was such a thing, but one learns. Besides, even veteran American...
View ArticleCrumpophonist Irving Freen Debuts His New CD, Aaaarrrggh!
Back in my heyday as a college music student, I had a subscription to Down Beat magazine. I was a Down Beat junkie, and among the things I eagerly looked forward to each month were the record reviews....
View ArticleThe Giant Steps Scratch Pad: As Crass a Plug as You’ll Ever Encounter Anywhere
BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! Never mind the rest of the gobbledegook on this page–just go to the bottom and start clicking on shopping carts. As for you less...
View ArticleGrasshopper Passion Revisited
Editing away with beaverish industriousness on a video interview I hope to post soon on this blog, I haven’t had time to mess with much of anything else. So heck, why not dig into my several years of...
View ArticleThe Smart Shopper’s Guide to Swan Meat, Revisited
Evidently a lot of you Stormhorn readers are swan meat junkies. I had no idea, but judging by the continuing traffic to an article I posted back in February, 2010, I don’t know what else to conclude....
View ArticleMy July 27 Michigan Tornado Video, for What It’s Worth
Michigan is not Oklahoma. It is not even Illinois. If you’re a storm chaser who has any life experience with this state, as a few of you do besides me, you know exactly what I mean. Had Dorothy and...
View ArticleDixieland for Cows
Till now, I thought for sure that I was the only jazz musician in the world who has played for a cow audience. And maybe I was until these guys, like me, discovered what fine, appreciative listeners...
View ArticleA Session with the Doc
This storm season of 2012 started with a bang but then rapidly fizzled into a pathetic whimper. Now summer is here, and with the mid-levels heating up and dewpoint depressions widening to the point...
View ArticleThings a Jazz Musician Never Hears Anyone Say
[See image gallery at stormhorn.com] You see this? It’s a rare phenomenon in Michigan called “rain” (pronounced rayn). It began yesterday as a closed 500 mb low settled in over the state, and it looks...
View ArticleA View from the Air
I initially posted the following humorous piece without any preamble. It subsequently dawned on me that a brief introduction could serve one important purpose: preventing anyone from taking me...
View ArticleMini-Tornadoes: Defining a Microscale Mystery
In Europe they have mini-tornadoes. There was a time in my callow, formative years as a storm chaser when I was unaware that there was such a thing, but one learns. Besides, even veteran American...
View ArticleCrumpophonist Irving Freen Debuts His New CD, Aaaarrrggh!
Back in my heyday as a college music student, I had a subscription to Down Beat magazine. I was a Down Beat junkie, and among the things I eagerly looked forward to each month were the record reviews....
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