Time Travel
I’ve heard men say time travel isn’t possible. This past weekend I discovered it is real. I went to an outdoor music festival with my son. I saw myself at 18, standing there among the crowds. I heard...
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Group Survival
Holidays often bring us together with people who share vastly different opinion and philosophy from us. One can argue, or find common ground. One thing I know is the survival of groups – be it from a...
View Article124 Main Street Centerbrook, CT 06409
We’ve moved up to the country baby… gonna paint our mailbox blue… Map: 124 Main Street Centerbrook, CT 06409
View ArticleA Sense of Freedom
There are businesses you walk into and people smile. Than there are the others. Being able to choose those I work with provides a fresh sense of freedom.
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Rain
Raw cold and anxious Grey days avoiding raindrops My veneer may melt Soft gentle spring rain My smiling mouth is open Perls land on my tongue socci
View ArticleSquirrels
When I got home this evening, two huge squirrels were sitting at my back door gorging themselves on a bag of birdseed that an unnamed resident of this household left out. I approached and the two...
View ArticleHeatwave
June, hot morning sun old candle wax melting in forgotton drawers some people complain “its just so unbearable” Yet March was too cold
View ArticleSolo Piano Jazz (for Jaki Byard)
two hands make a band intricate structures mixing, the genius brings forth counterpoint, humor from the the tonal dynamo, deep inside his mind
View ArticleThe Law: God and Gravity
My wife and I got into a discussion the other day. She had gotten into a heated Facebook argument about gay marriage. We believe the legal, societal aspect of marriage is a legal one – a contract....
View Article$250 Chinese Made Soprano Saxophone Review, Opus USA
Purchased from KTone in Queens, NY – arrived in two days. Nice case, mouthpiece, reed, cork grease, cleaning rags, swab. Horn plays surprisingly well. Wouldn’t think twice about bringing it on a gig....
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Africa, What Have You In Store For Me?
Something I wrote down a while back. — Oh, Africa, what have you in store for me? I come from the west with a seed in my heart, what have you in store for me? Things i can’t imagine, what does it mean...
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RIP – my mother, Lily Strange Socci July 30, 1924 – January 31, 2013
We’ll have more to say later. For now, the obituary I composed. Rest in peace ma… Lily Socci Lily Strange Socci of Centerbrook died at Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, CT on January 31, 2013. She was 88...
View ArticleAping Jackie McLean
I started getting serious about music when I was 15. When I was 16 I wrote Jackie McLean a letter because I knew he had developed a music program at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford,...
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Family and Funerals
Joey, Lily, Charley Socci I lost my mother on January 31, 2013. A week later my uncle and God-Father Kenny died. My uncle Frankie died less than two weeks later. My dad died in 2005 and my only...
View ArticleThe Christian
There is a famous quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi in which he states to admire Jesus, but not followers. In one version, he speaking to E. Stanley Jones, author of “The Christ of the Indian Road”....
View ArticlePeople Aren’t Much Like Computers
This will seem like a stupid post perhaps – its a simple point. It is so obvious that I think most people will think, “Of COURSE people aren’t like computers!… or, ‘computers have no feelings…’, or...
View ArticleSquirrels
When I got home this evening, two huge squirrels were sitting at my back door gorging themselves on a bag of birdseed that an unnamed resident of this household left out. I approached and the two...
View ArticleThe Uninhibited Jazz Musician
There once was a jazz musician. Who had no inhibition. Never disgraced if he fell on his face – since his triumphs launched solar emissions.
View ArticleCan a $250 EBay Alto Really Be Any Good?
My review of the $250 “Opus USA” alto saxophone. Purchased to play while my Selmer alto is in the shop.
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