"Swing is all a question of how long you can maintain an equilibrium with other musicians. Anyone can do it for one measure. But two or three minutes, or ten, that's a different story. You have to adjust to what everyone else plays whether you like it or not. Don't judge it or fight it. Work with it. Because the music is not gonna stop for you to get your head right."
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Wynton Swing Quote
I'm reading "Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life" by Wynton Marsalis and Carl Vigeland right now. Thought I would share a poignant quote:
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Cultural Studies - Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook - NYTimes.com
Excellent, or should I say EXXXXCCCCELLLLLLLLENNNNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, article
Favorite quotes:
"Being “friends” on Facebook is more of a fantasy or imitation or shadow of friendship than the traditional real thing. Friendship on Facebook bears about the same relation to friendship in life, as being run over by a car in a cartoon resembles being run over by a car in life. Facebook is friendship minus the one on one conversation, minus the moment alone at a party in a corner with someone (note to ninth graders: chat and messages don’t count); Facebook is the chatter of a big party, the performance of public cleverness, the facades and fronts and personas carefully crafted, the one honed line, the esprit de l’escalier; in short, the edited version."
"Somewhere in the gap between status posting and the person in their room at night is life itself. So fiction is the right response, the right commentary, the right point to be making about who we are in these dangerously consuming media, in these easy addictive nano-connections."
The mention in the article about a girl spending 6 hours a day on Facebook partly illustrates why I chose to quit the omnipresent social networking site. While I didn't allow the site to consume my time to quite that degree, I can attest to its addictiveness. I believe, from my personal experience and from my observation of others, that FB creates a significant distraction which not only takes time away from one's schedule - already so busy with school/work and other obligations - but also creates a delusional and inherently unsatisfying perception of one's own social life. By subscribing to a medium through which people easily can and do convince themselves of friendships that don't really exist, and which lures people to routinely and sometimes obsessively concern themselves with people not present in their routine environments, we distort our assessment of the multitude and richness of our interpersonal relationships, leading to a laziness or even an unawareness for the degree of need for pursuing real life relationships with the people in our current environment.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
YouTube - Live Performance on "U-Tunes"
A gig I did with the lovely and talented singer/songwriter Kailey Billings and Russell "basstastic" Klein:
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