Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Sounding like discovery: Mixmonk with Robin Verheyen, Bram De Looze, and Joey Baron at the Bird’s Eye in Basel, 15 May 2026

Concerts I’ve seen with Joey Baron since 1988

Billy Joel’s “The Stranger” (1977): Two great songs that create worlds; one great stanza; the rest a void

A symbol of the intensity and range of Johanna Summer’s piano playing in a duo concert with Jakob Manz

Two coordinated verbs with a gerund, or three coordinated verbs?

The two scenes repeating Pip’s childhood trauma in Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861)