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glenndoig

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About Me

I play piano, and like writing tunes. I'm qualified by the Sydney Conservatorium to do so in a jazz style, strictly at an undergraduate academic level though. That's about all so far

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Member Since: 9/19/2006
Band Website: email me at [email protected]
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My Blog

Mehldau.. Brahms, Interpretation, and Improvisation

http://bradmehldau.com/writing/index.htmlThe aching beauty of the Adagio movement in Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet always gets me. It’s a sweet ache that hits you in the stomach, like the first...
Posted by glenndoig on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:34:00 PST

Garrett.. Maintaining Jazzs Relevance

http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/index.php?name=News&fil e=article&sid=1504Maintaining Jazz's Relevance: World Saxophone Quartet's Political Blues and The Roy Hargrove Factor's Distractionsalt1Whic...
Posted by glenndoig on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:18:00 PST

Burtis.. Buddy Rich, ungiving musicians

http://forum.samburtis.com/viewtopic.php?t=2901Ben Griffin wrote..While technology and the shrinking world does have its downfalls, one of the benefits is that we so much information at our fingertips...
Posted by glenndoig on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:29:00 PST

Burtis.. Music vs. athletics

http://forum.samburtis.com/viewtopic.php?t=1620When you get right down to it, sports is more popular than music&at least non-pop music&because MANY more people have played sports at a competent level ...
Posted by glenndoig on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:26:00 PST

Wooten.. Vibrations again

Vibrations? Yeah, it's actually pretty simple. The thing is nothing ever stops vibrating.Scientists know that, I mean they'll tell u that everything is a vibration. Right, yeah.I mean, things vibrate ...
Posted by glenndoig on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:43:00 PST

Keezer.. Is music enough?

Playing music - is it enough? (July 2005)[http://www.geoffreykeezer.com/gurlinastent.item.html?p ID=236&gID=&gndn=152e99efb13e351727f3786a91761ed0]I' m on the road in Spain with the Jim Hall Qua...
Posted by glenndoig on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:53:00 PST

Burtis.. Why

Mon Aug 11, 2003 PhattyRoses wrote:If you were the last person on earth, would you continue to play the trombone and why? There would be no one else to hear you play and no one to play with.Sabutin wr...
Posted by glenndoig on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:45:00 PST

Burtis.. Universal understanding

So Martha Graham said:"No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than t...
Posted by glenndoig on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:30:00 PST

Burtis.. The ultimate low note

this is the post i've been searching for since i first saw it two years ago.._____________________Carmine Caruso's basic teaching concept was the use of time. Instead of endlessly rehashing the the en...
Posted by glenndoig on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:41:00 PST

Burtis.. Time, meter, idiom and time, thought, feeling

Price Taylor wrote:---snip---It is strange, isn't it -- the "unemphasis" put on time and timing? The assumption in music schools (unless they've added some training) is that we are all good at -- whic...
Posted by glenndoig on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:56:00 PST