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Jeff Lederer

Jul 84 min read

Truth is Marching In....Truthing and Lying in Politics, and Jazz.

Truth is Marching In – Truthing and Lying in jazz, public discourse and in life. Jeff Lederer, Bklyn July 2024...

Jul 6, 20223 min read

Sloppy Ink on Rough Paper - Notated Music

Sloppy Ink on Rough Paper – An Essay by a composer. When I was in graduate school in 1984 studying composition with Ramon Zupko (the...

Jul 22, 20217 min read

The Eightfold Path - a Musical Practice.

The Eightfold Path as a Guide for a Musical Practice The Eightfold Path The “Eightfold Path” is a set of practices as laid out in...

Dec 30, 20204 min read

2020 - Out There

2020 – Out There This is a tough one to write, and I wonder what is really the value of looking back on this year and how it...

Jul 25, 20209 min read

JOY.

There is a word that has been popping up in my life over the last week; it is the most unlikely word given the challenges of this...

Jun 30, 20208 min read

Balls of Simplicity - My experiences with Shakerism

Balls of Simplicity “The shiny balls of simplicity will set you free”, a phrase from a Shaker “Vision” or “Gift” song from the 1830’s –...

Jun 23, 202023 min read

Two Jeffs - A memory

Two Jeffs – A memory. This is a story about two Jeffs – Black Jeff and White Jeff. I am the White Jeff in this story, and the Black Jeff...