"Learn to BeBop on changes like Hank Mobley first. It tells you when to stop."
Those were roughly the words one of my all-time heroes Rick Margitza said to me when I had the chance to have a lesson with him in New York. And even though more than twenty
At the end of last year I wrote a piece about my inability to read as much as I would like to, and I kind of challenged myself to improve on this. Suffice to say, that it is not there where I would like it to be, but at least it has
I recently had to admit to myself that too many options are not good for the way I work. Once I have the chance to fiddle, I will do so and eventually not get much done.
This happened when I realized that, even though I very much enjoy Ulysses.app, it ultimately
I have more than once been writing (not calling it whining for that matter) here about my weird obsession with the _Nitti Font_ used by WriterPro and iA Writer. All attempts of getting used to another font more or less failed. Since moving all my typing over to Ulysses a void needed
Some of my favourite etudes that I ran into over the years are the Kröpsch Clarinet etudes, especially the first volume. The exercises are short, almost easy to remember and overall effective, challenging and fun to play. I always wished there would be something like that for Jazz saxophone studies.
Last year
About twenty years ago I was listening to a Big Band rehearsal for a concert with Sam River's music, the host of the masterclass that I was attending. It turned out that one tenor player was missing and with me hanging out in the doorway, that problem was easily solved
In the recent past I haven’t writing much about one of my weak spots: text-editors. Mostly this is because I haven’t had much time to actually do sit down and write some things for the blog, and also because I have been actually rather satisfied with my setup and choice
