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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 –...

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...