Its funny how so many things flow in cycles. Up, down; busy, not so busy.
This summer was largely what you’d call the “ not-so-busy” part of the cycle. Things were pretty quiet musically, with the time split between goofing off and logging hours in the practice room (always a good thing), learning new tunes and listening a lot . [...]
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Cycles
Posted in Gigs, Inspiration, Music & Spirituality, Performance on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A great March, some cool April stuff and a new CD in the works
Posted in Performance, Recording projects, Reviews on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
March has been a busy month as it always is for those of us who play traditional/celtic/folk music (gotta love the Green Shamrocks!) There have been a number of great gigs, including a couple of very intimate house concerts, a ceili, as well as Hawp’s stellar Toronto debut at the Flying Cloud Folk Club. And there’s still one more to [...]
Owen Sound Celtic Festival, Philadelphia, Travel
Posted in Performance, Sessions on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’m in Eatontown, NJ staying with some old and dear friends, as I hit the half-way mark on my 2-week sojurn back to the U.S. visiting family and friends. The past few weeks have been pretty busy with rehearsing, traveling, writing, teaching and so forth, so there’s a bit to catch up on.
HAWP’s performance(s) [...]
Listening & Style-shifting
Posted in Performance, Practice on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not a lot of new and/or extraordinary music stuff this week: spent most of it working on the new festival material and poking through my CD collection for arrangement ideas. (Well, that and spending four very frustrating hours trying to learn Finale to produce a lead-sheet which I could’ve written by hand in 15 minutes. But [...]
Improvisation
Posted in Creative Process, Early Entries, Jazz, Performance on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TAKEN from an article by Terri Windling on the art of Stu Jenks: “Circles, Sprials and Stu,” as it appears on the Endicott Studios website:
Art historian John Berger, in a recent essay (“Steps Toward a Small Theory of the Visible”) comments: “The modern illusion concerning painting (which postmodernism has done nothing to correct) is that [...]
Personal Insight: “The Concept” (a la Harold Mabern)
Posted in Inspiration, Music & Spirituality, Performance on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(…) My time in Philadelphia also saw interests in other areas developing, areas that at first seemed far removed from the music I was pursuing, but which later came to be intrinsically connected with my approach to it. Studies in spirituality, religion and mythology, psychology, aesthetics, the creative process, sociology / anthropology…all had a hand [...]
Good Point…
Posted in Jazz, Performance on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“…when you are playing concerts every night is Saturday night. You have to give the people who come to hear your music the feeling of a weekend, not the feeling that you are punching a clock.” ( – Wynton Marsalis, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life)
