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Thursday, December 30, 2010

You Must Be This Tall To Play Jazz: The Superficiality Of It All

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Some of you might be aware that my 41st Birthday happened yesterday.(FYI: unlike Elaine on Seinfeld, I would never scoff at a birthday gi...
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Monday, December 27, 2010

My Sentiments Exactly: A Brilliant Essay By Scott Robinson

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This is a reprint from All About Jazz. Scott Robinson, an extraordinary multi-instrumentalist, is also clearly an original thinker. Scott g...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Tin Pan Alley Revisited: Spike Wilner/ Ned Goold Duo at Smalls

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Spike Wilner Now that my teaching semester at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg is on holiday break, I'm spending the rest of De...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Oy vai iz mir, don't even bother........

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This is not a blogpost so much as a recommendation to check out a thread regarding freelance classical musicians in New York City. I am post...
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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Geoffrey Keezer: Talent, Experience, and Creativity

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I remember back in the early 90's when I heard pianist Geoffrey Keezer. I had been hearing people talk about him; he joined Art Blakey w...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Jazz Mini-Lesson

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I'm posting this little conversation I'm having with a reader who posted anonymously regarding a bad gig experience he had recent...
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George Colligan
I am an American jazz pianist/composer/educator who lives in Portland, Oregon but also tours and spends much time in NYC, where I lived for 14 years. Hope you enjoy my new blog.
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