Low Notes
Jay HeltzerRandom musings about the writing process through the life experience of the music-making process.
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Ain't No School Like the Old School
My most recent trip to Chicago afforded me an hour or two of spare time, so I hit up one of my old haunts from back in the day, Reckless Records, to find some used CDs to add to my collection.
You see, kids, before you streamed anything on...
The Beginning of the End
Note: not a ton of writing content in this month’s LOW NOTES, but boy howdy, this is a good one. Read on…
For the first time since, I don’t know… 1998? July will mark the first month I will not receive the newest issue of the International...
Bass Trombone Logic for Writers
During my first phone call with the great Jeff Reynolds (bass trombone, Los Angeles Philharmonic, retired), he instructed me to tape-record our lessons so he wouldn’t have to repeat himself. After that first lesson in 1992, I obsessively li...
I Got AI'ed and You Will Too
Every day during the week leading up to this post, I have been sitting in TAP class.
No, not tap dancing class. TAP stands for Transition Assistance Program. It is a requirement for all military members who are either separating or retirin...
The Rothko Chapel
In my 2026 pursuit of “Less is More,” I may have found one of the best locations to achieve it. It is The Rothko Chapel and it resides in Houston, Texas.
Funny thing is prior to my trip, at one point I heard about the Rothko Chapel (named...
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A bass trombonist who writes. A writer who has been bass tromboning. Opinions are my own and sometimes humorous.
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