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Category Archives: Music
Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell on How Complexity is Trumped By What You Bring
“I used to equate complexity with better music. How could you say that Segovia is more advanced than Robert Johnson or Jimi Hendrix or Wes Montgomery? … for me there’s no higher or lower… it just depends what you can bring to it or what your imagination can come up with.” - Bill Frisell (From [...]
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Six Lessons Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell Taught Me as a Musican and as Presenter
Bill Frisell @ 41 Bridge Street, Collinsville, CT This well-attended solo guitar concert was in a great venue right next to the Farmington River, in a quiet town that was once an industrial powerhouse. Here’s what I learned watching the concert with Lou Manzi. You can listen to Bill Frisell here. Be yourself. He’s a [...]
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Five Things Cellist Eugene Friesen Taught Me About Being an Artist of Life and Work
Concert: Maeve Gilchrist, Celtic harp & Eugene Friesen, cello double bill @ The Pushkin, Greenfield, MA You can listen to Eugene Friesen’s music here. 1. Start and end with exclamation points! He started by playing a very energetic version of a very energetic Bach piece. He ended with a fast Brazilian song accompanied by Maeve Gilchrist. [...]
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Six Things Celtic Harpist Maeve Gilchrist Taught Me About Being an Artist of Life and Work
“Let the beauty you love be what you do.” – Rumi Music is easily the beauty I love that can be more integrated with what I do. This is the first of a batch of posts that collects the wisdom that comes to me from seeing great musicians play live. I’m looking here for the [...]
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Live Every Day: “In the Moment” with Sue Fallon (a Quest Story)
Sue Fallon is one of the driving forces of the Garden State Harmonica Club. She edits the monthly newsletter, is the secretary and performs at many of the club’s performances. Her effervescent spirit is a pleasure to be around. Here’s Sue’s story of being an artist! Here’s a little story, an example, I think, of [...]
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Six Steps to Give Your Art Today
How to Give Your Art Today 1. Take three long, slow deep breaths. 2. Notice what you’re hoping to get out of the day. 3. On the next long exhale, let go of all those hopes. 4. Notice one small part of your day’s work that you’d like to give as a work of art. [...]
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What April gift would you like to give today?
To witness the month of April is to observe an act of creation. We see how art happens, how beauty and life grow through and from the most unlikely looking places. A month that begins with snow on the ground moves into what in New England is referred to as ‘mud season’. From this humble [...]
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What do Japanese tea ceremony bowls and Quentin Tarrantino have in common?
“The most valued bowls for tea ceremony are irregularly shaped, and have some gold patches here and there accentuating (rather than concealing) damage suffered at the hands of long ago owners. Asymmetry and irregularity allow the possibility of growth, but perfection chokes the imagination.” ~ Donald Keene, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture [...]
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Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell on Your Unique Voice