Many of my blog posse know I use this blog to keep notes of things I’ve done and want to do. So this is fair warning, this will probably be more interesting to me than to my readers unless you are seriously into performance and educational music.

If you are working away from your computer (like at your sisters or Dad’s house) you can get music by listening to Pandora.com where you define your stations for free. But additionally you can go to MySpace and listen to hours of music in almost any genre. People see my now over 1600 friends on Gandalfe at MySpace and probably think, what the heck? All I can say in my defense is that most of these folks are musicians and I often end up listening to them in the background while I surf the Web. A couple of examples:

• John Coltrane (easily a half hour of arguably some of his best stuff)
• Caroline Glass (low reed instrument esoterica)
• Nicole Barnes (classical sax phenom)
• Sara Gazarek (sweet soulful singer)

I challenge you to visit these and other sites on MySpace and not be mesmerized.

The Bellevue Jazz Festival is going on right now. Nuff said.

There’s so much jazz going on in Seattle that I just point out one session that I just became aware of. Gordon blogs about Inexpensive Free Jazz (luv the title) at the ever popular Egan’s Jam House in Ballard (in Seattle’s extended village). A lot of my friends play here regularly but I just don’t get there enough. Luv the big sax sign too.  ;o)

Okay one last note. Many of you know I moved from the chief admin at the world-famous Sax on the Web forum to a new science project called the Woodwind Forum. Smaller than SOTW, the Woodwind Forum is a more intimate gathering of musicians, repair techs, and late bloomers such as myself. In the short three months that WF has been going full bore, we’ve over 100 readers and contributors.

So my friends, I’d luv to see you sign up for that forum and join in some of the music discussions and community interactions. I’m just sayin…