I've been struggling with the words to express my grief since I received the news of the passing my friend and colleague, Eric...

There is no “easy” or “hard”, there is only “familiar” or “unfamiliar.” ~ Victor Goines, Director of Jazz Studies, Northwestern University

Welcome to the re-incarnation of Fat Man Ranting! But I suppose we should now call it Not-So-Fat Man Ranting! FMR was the title of a blog...