Bob – You’re 100% on Laura Nyro. She demands something of the listener; respectful attention to who she is and appreciation for her integrity and risks she takes without thinking about how it may look to others.  Nothing about Laura is "off the rack!" Artists who are totally in their own skins are rare indeed […]

Soon it will be Christmas.  And once again I will play Laura Nyro’s "Christmas In My Soul". Forty years ago I was a freshman in college.  That makes me fifty seven years old.  Believe me, it’s weird.  The time does go by in the blink of an eye, but the funny thing is you remember […]

It snowed on Friday night. Now not only does it not rain in Southern California, it certainly doesn’t snow, except in the mountains, which are as high as some Rockies, which always stuns people when they see them through the smog.  But I remember snow.  I grew up in Connecticut.  I went to college in […]

I’ve got to write fast because I’m going to dinner with Goldberg.  At Matsuhisa.  He owns the place.  And the Belly Up. What naysayers don’t get about the Aspen conference is it IS about the skiing!  It’s about the time you spend on the lift bonding with people, hearing their stories.  Like today at Snowmass, […]