Monthly Archives: November 2010

Burlesque? I think not…

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Gandalfe

Suzy and I went to see the movie Burlesque with Cher and Christina. I noted that Christina Aguilera adopted Cher’s ‘one name only’ moniker. Unfortunately the movie was a watered down Burlesque of sorts, with very little of the grit … Continue reading →

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Music Theory Cheat Sheet

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Gandalfe

The musician’s alias at work often comes up with gems such at this one: It would be nice to provide attribution for this if anyone knows the owner.

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Johnny Hodges does “The Last Time I saw Paris”

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Gandalfe

Music, as they say, is a great mood maker. I’m sitting here on an extended holiday weekend pokin’ around the internet; you know that “series of tubes” thingee. This video, one of my many favorites, is NSFW because some of … Continue reading →

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Casa du Glassa ~ Music Studio by Design

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Gandalfe

As some of you might know, I am crazy happy with my return to performance music. Some might suggest I’ve gone a little over the top; they would be right. But we really lucked into the music studio. When the … Continue reading →

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Orange Colored Sky

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Gandalfe

The Microsoft Jazz Band performed this in July. Another of my favs, again by Shaz Adams, “Orange Colored Sky” is a popular song, written by Milton DeLugg and Willie Stein and published in 1950. As sung by Shaz at Big … Continue reading →

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Clarinet Challenge ~ Can you say Fricken Hard?

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Gandalfe

I am firstly a sax guy. I have a lot of music to prepare for the seven holiday gigs I have in December. Clarinet remains my biggest challenge and after three years of a on again, off again relationship, I … Continue reading →

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NSFW ~ Photographer Emil Schildt

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Gandalfe

I discovered Emil’s work today by way of Eolake’s blog. Eolake is the owner of the world famous DOMAI site which features pictures of “joyful nudes of beautiful women”. It is one of the few such sites that I mention … Continue reading →

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Spontaneous Hallelujah Chorus ~ 2010

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Gandalfe

Reported by the Creative Minority Report: Just this past weekend, shoppers at the the Macy’s in Philadelphia (the old Wanamaker building) were surprised when over 600 choristers who were there mingling with regular shoppers suddenly burst into Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. … Continue reading →

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The Music Ambassadors

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Gandalfe

The WCB Music Ambassadors is an adjunct of the Woodinville Community Band made up of hobbyist musicians from Seattle’s eastside. A number of small group ensembles, we meet prior to our major Woodinville Community Band concerts. Today you will hear … Continue reading →

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David Letterman’s top ten “New Words for 2010”

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Gandalfe

I luv reading from the new and updated dictionaries about what new words were added and some of those that were rejected. So when I happened to catch David Letterman’s top ten “New Words for 2010” I just had to … Continue reading →

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