You may not have realised it yet, but today is a very special day and this is a very special blog post! For this is the 100th post I have written since starting this venture way back in 2017. To celebrate, I’ve been looking back into the mists of time and working hard to put …
It’s back, and it’s bigger than ever! But enough about my student debt – I’m really here to talk about this week’s Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday, which takes the form of a live performance by Lester Young of ‘A Foggy Day’ by everyone’s favourite Gershwins: The Gershwins. It’s not a foggy day where …
This is merely a blog post of no great length, intended to inform the general population about a concert recording that is being broadcast on YouTube this Friday at 7:00 pm. The concert in question is ‘Direct from the West End’, as performed by the Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra in 2018, and if you look …
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bq8xp-KoU8w%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded This week on TTBOAW, I bring you another stellar performance from Lester Young and co. This is him performing with his quartet in 1956, and you can tell how much they were enjoying themselves (or maybe they were being held at gunpoint or something, I don’t know) by the amount of soloing they get …
Today I would like to bring you instalment no. 5 of Tales from the Rhoda McGaw! I spent a significant part of last week playing for Runnymede Drama Group’s production of Sister Act, and what a fine show it was. While I was there I also managed to get some more soundbites of me playing …
I had a tiring but enjoyable time on Thursday, travelling all the way to the wilds of Newport (the Wales one, not any of the others) to play tenor saxomophone and a little bit of clarimanet for ‘Stranger Swings’, a new stage show with vocal harmony quartet The Flyboys. The only problem is, I forgot …
I have often read over the years of the benefits of transcribing jazz solos, and how it can help improve aural and improvisational skills. I have decided I would quite like to reap some of those benefits myself, and for this reason I hereby instate a new tradition: Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday! Every …
Good afternoon world. It has come to my attention that I have been neglecting my hordes of adoring fans lately, with many of you (presumably) wondering and caring deeply about what I’ve been up to since my last update. So I thought now was the time to fill you in on all of my comings …
On Saturday I made an excursion to Huddersfield with self-professed next-big-thing Mister James Ure, to record some saxomophone solos for his upcoming debut single! Due out this Valentine’s Day, ‘Red Stripe, Red Stripe (Why Won’t You Be My Wife?)’ is the story of one man’s love affair with his favourite canned beverage. I can promise …
Well, how time flies! It appears that I haven’t updated you wonderful people since the beginning of July, and an awful lot has happened since then. Therefore I would now like to present a review of the past six weeks, which I hope you will find interesting. Week 1 (2nd July) After returning from …
