The Cantor Set: News

If you are wondering why our product page features a recording by SHIRA, a jazz/folk fusion band, it is because that is how I started out. While SHIRA does still perform at concerts and parties several times a year, The Cantor Set is a reinvention of myself. I chose the name and set up a website before I found my fellow musicians to perform with. I am so lucky to have found them. I guess it's true that 'if you build it, they will come.'

Just one more thing about The Cantor Set and then I'll drop the subject. I just want to help you visualize what Uncle Georg was talking about. Think about the set of real numbers. They include any number like 42 and 1.333333. There are an infinite number of those critters. Now think about integers only. They are the numbers without decimal points like 1, 2, 3. There's an infinite number of them also, but there's less of them than the real numbers. Just blows your mind, doesn't it?

I will confess. I am not related to Georg Cantor. He was a mathematician (1845-1918) who realized that some infinite sets are larger than other infinite sets. This made Herr Cantor a very controversial figure. There were many tragic things in his life, partly because of the turmoil he caused in the mathematical world. I wish he could have lived to see how important The Cantor Set became with fractals and Chaos Theory.

This is just a new year's reflection. I have been a professional musician since 1987 and my adventures in music are always changing. I have performed in regional theatres in the pit band, in a folk/jazz fusion party and concert band, in classical duos and quartets, in jazz combos for parties, and in an oldies rock and roll bar band. Now, I am in a jazz big band and writing and recording music in my studio. Each one of these adventures has opened up styles of music to me, has introduced me to the people who follow these styles, and has thrown me in with a varied cast of musical characters --some lovable and some not so. I feel fortunate to have had such a rich musical life.

Through all of these changes, my jazz combo, The Cantor Set, persists where I have the fortune to play with two very lovable musical characters - Tony and Paul. We are not doing as many PUBLIC performances these days but when we do, we hope you will come and take in the grooves with us. And, keep us in mind for your parties and other events.