Publications

For several years I was the editor of Mandolin Quarterly and conducted several long form interviews with some of the greatest mandolin players of the time. I didn’t get everyone, but I got most of them before we disbanded.

As part of my job with Mandolin Quarterly I needed to find interesting columnists to contribute to the magazine. Mick Moloney had written several columns in another great little magazine called the Mandocrucians Digest published by Niles Hokannan(sp). When I decided to start a mandolin column I immediately thought of Mick. It turned out that we were both professors in Manhattan - Mick at NYU and I was at Columbia. We were a mere 108 blocks away from each other making it easy for us to meet often. I decided that I would try to transcribe every solo Mick recorded and all of tunes he played for me in person which I recorded. I intend to create a book with all of those transcriptions along with my interview of Mick and overview of Irish mandolin.

I wrote several columns on historically important mandolin platers and composers of classical mandolin music. I collate these article into a nice history of the classical mandolin and include relevant scores and examples.

Hear is a listing of many of the recordings I performed on over the course of my career.

I published one book of arrangements of the many famous Italian mandolin songs in arrangements for mandolin and guitar.

Now out of print, I have 1 box left of the soft cover books that I will put up for sale as the this site is completed.

I have a second unpublished book of the most famous Italian mandolin solos - note for note - as played by the great Italian American mandolinists transcribed from historic recordings.

At Columbia University I taught several recording studio classes where I focused on the history of recording and production techniques. I have a lot of material here for the lovers of reverb and echo!