Writings about Music

Bespoke Music

Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Lee Konitz and Art Blakey

Lee Konitz pointedly told me regarding albums of mine he had listened to: “I think the definition of genius is when someone tries to do what the current leaders in music are doing, finds that impossible, and then develops something new out of necessity.” My feeling at the time was how his opinion was based upon personal experience.

- Michael Robinson, May 2023, Los Angeles

 

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Michael Robinson is a Los Angeles-based composer, programmer, pianist and musicologist. His 199 albums include 152 albums for meruvina and 47 albums of piano improvisations. Robinson has been a lecturer at UCLA, Bard College and California State University Long Beach and Dominguez Hills.