Category Music
Best Laid Plans
The Ottawa Jazz Festival ended last night. If you were planning on attending and hadn’t noted the dates you probably aren’t all that thrilled with me for bringing that up. My apologies…but really, it is up to you to keep on track of these things. I am neither your mother nor your secretary. I mention […]
Musical Memories
About the third song this past Friday night it hit me. Living in Montreal, at the end of the 1960s and during the early 1970s I had the opportunity to experience an explosion of creative musical culture that may have been unprecedented. Certainly it was for Canada Last Friday Michel Pagliaro came to town. I […]
Elvis Wasn’t In This Building
I don’t remember reading the book before. Maybe it came from my parents’ house when they moved into a retirement residence, or maybe I picked it up at a garage sale. Not that I frequent garage sales. It was a Perry Mason mystery, Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Cautious Coquette. (Does anyone these […]
Spoiler Alert
This is the in-between day. Yesterday was Good Friday. Tomorrow is Easter. Sorrow will be turned into laughter. Mourning into joy. They didn’t know that in 29 A.D. of course (a calendar error means our dating of BC and AD are a little off). They knew all about Good Friday, about the dashing of hopes […]
Another Brick In The Wall
I didn’t see him spit on the fan. I was too far back. But I did see the kick in the face. Roger Waters, bass player for the British rock band Pink Floyd was back in Montreal last week, reliving the 1977 concert at the Olympic Stadium that gave birth to the band’s 1979 epic […]
Clara
I had never heard of Morton Kelsey until Martyn Joseph mentioned him at a concert a few years back. You have probably ever heard of him either. I still haven’t read any of his more than three dozen books, but I have ordered one from my local library, the only one they have. To tell […]
Requiem For A Rock Star
Davy Jones is dead. No, not that one, not the diminutive member of The Monkees. He died in 2012. I mean the singer who changed his name so he wouldn’t be confused with the singer from the pre-fab four. David Bowie, dead of cancer at 69, only a couple of days after the release of […]
Modern Times
Technology is everywhere. Last night it even invaded my dream life. Every dream I had revolved around Twitter. And I don’t even like Twitter. Dreams fade quickly when you retain consciousness, and I only remember one of them, probably the last one before I woke up. It involved Eric Clapton. I was at an Eric […]
A Christmas Bonus!
This showed up in my Facebook feed today. I first met Roy almost 40 years ago – so nice to see he’s still putting out music. Roy Salmond – Producer Sponsored · A little over 10 years ago, I created a solo piano album of mellow Christmas favourites. They were sold as a ‘value […]
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