- What We Talk About When We Talk About Music: Part 1 — Background, Caveats, and an Analogy to Consider
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Music: Part 2 — Ear Training
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Music: Part 3 — Hybridity
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Music: Part 4 — Music and Identity
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Music: Part 5 — What I Listen to When I Listen to Popular Music
- On Listening
- Modern Day Vaudeville
A little over a year ago, someone posted this question on Quora:
Why does John Coltrane’s music sound like someone just erratically blowing on a sax sometimes?
The short version of my answer, I suppose, could be this:
Except with the word “LISTEN” underlined and circled in red pen.
But here’s the longer answer that I actually posted: