the From the Top Gala group shot accompanied by Cyril Scott’s At Dawn

Tonight was the 10th Annual From the Top Gala, held this year at the incredible MIT Media Lab. First opportunity to take a complete staff photograph. What a great-looking bunch, the hardest-working and most congenial group I’ve been honoured to work with now these 15 years. Your soundtrack for perusing this panoramic sea of smiles …

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Dave King (arr. O’Riley) ~ 1972 Bronze Medalist live on From the Top

David King is my favorite drummer in the world. He’s also a great composer and pianist. He plays often with The Bad Plus. This is a solo piano arrangement i performed at a From the Top live taping in OH a couple of years ago. Jacques, the eponymous French medalist promenading with his medal disported …

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David King (arr. O’Riley) ~ Anthem for the Earnest

re-loading a lot of stuff from the old site to the shiny new one. i’ve done a number of songs by Dave King (of The Bad Plus). may be time, soon, to do a whole TBP record? here’s a live performance, taped at one of our From the Top live tapings:

Haruki Murakami ~ After Dark

Just finished reading Haruki Murakami‘s odyssey of the night, After Dark, a twilight time-scale similarly circumscribed by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake and Martin Scorsese in After Hours: minutes shy of Midnight to sunrise. It’s amazing how life-changing events take place in this book while so many millions sleep, and how sleep becomes the preferred …

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Haruki Murakami ~ After the Quake

Just finished reading a collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami, a Kundera-ean McGuffin, a bonfire, the search for rootedness, revenge/regret, a super-frog (easily the funniest/darkest of all Murakami’s tories, for me), storytelling/legendary friendships/loves, all under the shadow of the Kobe Earthquake (1995.01.16). Exquisite miniatures, all, from my favorite writer of the moment.  

Andy Warhol’s Pictures of Me

Had a great time, early last March, playing a private concert in honour of Andy Warhol muse (and companion of Salvador Dali) Ultra Violet, at the home of a friend of mine who’d introduced me to Andy at our weekly chamber music soirees at his balconied Central Park apartment. I performed my arrangements of Lou …

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