  Photo: Hal Horowitz Bookmark and Share  The composing roots of
jazz composer/pianist Andy Milne were sowed and then began to
grow when he was seven years old. But as he explains during a
phone conversation from his home in Pennsylvania, he hasn’t
lived in his native country of Canada for almost 18 years.  Our
conversation about his composing work as a solo pianist and
leader of jazz quintet Dapp Theory continued after he quickly
explained that prior to my call he was straightening up his
house: “I’ve been on tour for awhile and it’s been a long time
since I’ve had time to relax and clean up a bit.”  And sitting
at home is not something that Milne has done too often. With a
collaborating list boasting Ravi Coltrane, Steve Coleman, and
Cassandra Wilson and a “Rising Star Keyboardist” nod from Down
Beat Magazine, Milne hasn’t really looked back that much since
he was seven years old. “I didn’t come from a musical family
necessarily, but as the second youngest, all my older siblings
studied piano. I was the one