Music Words

Essays and Performances

Prior to becoming more heavily involved in writing and the film world, I spent a lot of time with music: performing, composing, playing it on the radio, writing about it as well. This page is a portal to my writing on world music, jazz, and my own performance work, follow the links below.

photo courtesy Helen MacKinlay

Read about:

Flamenco, the great (and often terrifying) music from Spain
Jazz Organ History, focusing on the mighty Hammond B-3 from the early days upward
Morlam, music that energizes the culture of the Isaan people of northeast Thailand
The Roots of Madness, the crazy legendary avant-garde band in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1970s
Geoff's musical compositions, performances on, and writings about the incomparable Farfisa VIP-500 organ