Jocko MacNelly

I was faced with the assignment of realizing a continuo part for banjoist john Bullard's upcoming cd, and I thought it would be helpful to both of us if I had a look under the hood. I forgot to turn…Read more

   A Bach piece usually comes to us without much (from the composer at least) in the way of  direction, an omission which is unfortunately taken all too literally in many performances. Most likely a bit of interpretive latitude was permitted…Read more

I lost the CD I originally heard this stunning solo on, transcribed it off a youtube video which was subsequently scrubbed. There's a few versions of Prez doing "Indiana" on there, but I can't seem to dig up this one… Read more

  The other night on the gig, I was muddling through the usual way and thinking "what happened to all that stuff I've been practicing at the last two weeks?" Suddenly, some time in the second set it just...dropped into… Read more