Attended another jazz jam session last night @ Grumpy’s (on bishop street, Montreal). Great house band, for which I unfortunately missed the first set with Tom Eliasoff (guitar), Eric Thibodeault (drums) and Sage Reynolds (bass).
I had the opportunity to catch up with (more…)
It’s very hot in Montreal these days. When your suffering from the global cooking (yes, it’s beyond global warming now!) try this :
It’s the Montreal Jazz Festival (June 25th to July 5th I believe).
I’m “over my head” in pretty much everything : gigs, teaching, rehearsing, practicing, writing … and yes, going out a lot. It’s great!
I went to a few free shows so far and attended a jam session last night.
I can ride my bike or take the metro to the festival site (I get there in less than 20 minutes usually). I’ll keep you posted …
My life, music and career are still evolving positively these days. Last time I wrote on this blog, I was attempting to implement a “more strict” discipline to my life… it’s working ok. To give you a rough idea, I’m trying to do the following everyday: (more…)
After reading this self-discipline article (for the third or fourth time now…) I decided to create my own “30 days challenge” :
For 30 days straight, 6 days a week I will spend (more…)
I was really looking forward to my practice today… but didn’t even TOUCH the guitar!
I had to do many things (including maintaining the website and buy some groceries)…
The day went by unbelievably fast!
Watch out for tomorrow’s practice!!!
No practice today; teaching 9-5…
I had 2-3 hours to practice in between students. Nothing serious, mostly jamming…
Day off. No practice, no nothing! (Playing video games and relaxing at home)
