So I know I’m on my honeymoon in Paris and I said I was going to take a break from blogging and let my guest bloggers have this space until my return. And I know I should be checking out the impressionists at the Musee d’Orsay, or strolling around the Marais in search of the […]
Thoughts
I don’t remember how I first came across Andrew Durkin’s blog, but I remember where it led me. I read his post “Winging It” concerning a review of the band Mostly Other People Do The Killing and the idea of spontaneity. The reviewer turned out to be Peter Hum of the Ottowa Citizen. I immediately […]
Today’s guest post comes to us from David J. Hahn. I’m thrilled to have David be part of my blog, as he was one of the first musician bloggers I met. Before I started One Working Musician.com I did lots of research, and one of the first blogs I came across was MusicianWages.com, which was […]
Today’s guest post comes to us from saxophonist Art Brown. Art has been active on the jazz, funk, R&B and hip-hop scenes in Seattle for the last 5 years, and studied Jazz Performance at the University of Washington. He plays regularly in a number of amazing groups, including Hardcoretet, Vunt Foom, Theoretics and Soul Kata. […]
September is Guest Blogger Month here at OneWorkingMusician.com. I’m getting married in less than a week and will be taking off for my honeymoon in Paris for the remainder of the month! While I’m gone I am thrilled to have some of my favorite bloggers and musical minds lending their insights on the life of […]
Two significant jazz musician birthdays came and went recently – Lester “Prez” Young’s 100th birthday was on August 27th, and Charlie “Bird” Parker’s 89th was on August 29th. These two genius musical minds were honored by two of our current crop of musical heavies. Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus spent the last six months […]
Jazz writer Howard Mandel has started a campaign on Twitter to help dispel the myth that jazz is dying. Prompted by Terry Teachout’s Wall Street Journal article “Can Jazz Be Saved” that I wrote about here, Mandel decided to mobilize the jazz twitterati to see just how many people are actually going to see live […]
NOTE: This post started as a reply on a thread at Trumpet Herald.com. The thread was referencing Terry Teachout’s Wall Street Journal Article “Can Jazz Be Saved?”, which I wrote about here. After posting my reply to the rather long thread I thought it deserved a post of its own. I hope this is the […]
Every Friday on this blog is “Makin’ it Happen Friday”, where I feature another musician who’s found a way to make a living playing music. I am constantly inspired by others, and hope to pass that inspiration on to you. I have had the pleasure of working with Beth Fleenor on a number of occasions, […]
Peter Hum over at Jazzblog.ca has become one of my favorite writers in the jazz blogosphere. He writes consistently thoughtful and insightful pieces on the issues we face, the music we play and the personalities that make up the jazz community. His latest post raises the question of why jazz is not appealing to a […]
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