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Pat Blythe – UNISON and Jaymz Bee’s Caravan of Music….

Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera, A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Andy Kim, Barbra Lica, Bill Bell, BMG Music Canada, Bob Segarini, Bonzai Suzuki, Canadian Music Publishers Association, Catharine Saxberg, Cocktail Parties for Dummies, Convocation Hall, Damhnait Doyle, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jamyz Bee and The Royal Jelly Orchestra, Jamyz Bee’s Caravan of Music, Jay Douglas, Jaymz Bee, Jazz Live, Jim Cuddy, Jodie Ferneyhough, Joe Hash, June Garber, Leisure Lab, Look People, luvthemusic, Marcus O'Hara, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Muse, Music Canada, Nepotism Records, Old Mill Toronto, Pat Blythe, Slaight Music, SOCAN, Ted Quinlan, The Bee People, The Tiki Collective, Tom Cochrane, Unison Benevolent Fund, Whitney Ross-Barris on April 17, 2019 by segarini

Today’s missive and prime focus is Unison and the musical community they support. We begin with Unison’s background. Then it’s on to the fabulous fundraising bash Monday night (I’m still attempting to open the other eye). Find out who Jaymz Bee is (it was his birthday party), the instigator of Monday night’s festivities and of course, the musicians themselves and their music.

Some of the best Canadian talent appeared in support of this wonderful cause and to celebrate a birthday. But before I launch into any of that, I would like you to take a few minutes and listen to the following video.

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JAIMIE VERNON – THE ORIGIN OF SONG

Posted in Opinion with tags Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Bacharach & David, Bernie Taupin, Bob Segarini, Brazil, Brill Building, Bryan Adams, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Canadian Music, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Closing Time, Dan Wilson, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elton John, fatherhood, Flying Saucer Reader, Goffin & King, Helo Penheiro, inspiration, Jaimie Vernon, Jim Vallance, John Woloschuk, Klaatu, Leiber & Stoller, Mann & Weil, Muse, Playboy, Rio de Janeiro, robin thicke, Semisonic, songwriters, Stan Getz, Star Wars, Terry Draper, The Carpenters, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Girl From Ipanema, Tin Pan Alley, Vinícius de Moraes, World Contact Day on February 21, 2015 by segarini

Songwriters are a gifted breed. They’re poets that think in three dimensions. It isn’t enough to be able to put pen to paper and Chaucer their ideas onto papyrus. They have to lift those words from this black and white template and insert them into music from which a melody rises and falls.

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Jade Dunlop: Betting on the Muse

Posted in Opinion with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jade Dunlop, Muse on September 15, 2011 by segarini

Ah! The cold, unforgiving stare of the blank page! The laptop hums quietly in condescendence while the cursor blinks slowly; smugly waiting to leap forward with words it knows just aren’t coming. Time blurs like a bad dream as the deadline creeps ever closer. Paralyzing fear grips my body as I acclimate myself to the pitiful realization that I have nothing to say to my audience. I stand before you empty handed. Silence from my fingertips. My literary stage fright.