2015 is off to a good start, but fate had a bit of fun with me on my journey home from work today. When I arrived at work this morning, I exited my car and clicked my key fob to lock the doors, but it didn’t work. I pushed its buttons a few times to be…
In Praise of Grant Green
There are a lot of great guitarists in the history of jazz. Of the ones I’ve had the pleasure of surveying, Wes Montgomery is probably the greatest, and that’s a not-at-all-uncommon opinion. But the one I find myself turning to again and again, the guitarist who is probably my favorite of all of them, is…
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy
I’ve been learning “Summertime” on guitar of late. I’ll post an arrangement when I’m through with it. But, for now, I’d like to share a few gems I’ve discovered in the course of getting familiar with the song. One of the things I really like about learning jazz standards is delving into the history of…
divArt: painting pixels with divs
I’ve been messing with CSS3 a lot of late. And it occurred to me that using the height, width, and background-color attributes of div tags, along with some judicious use of floats and clears, one could make some pixel-perfect art without having to resort to images. I’ve been on a retro arcade game kick of late,…