I will be taking a small hiatus for the next two weeks while my eye heals. Cataract surgery is scheduled for Thursday and then time to heal and give my eye(s) a rest. First the left eye…..then the right. At this point I don’t know how far apart (or close together) the surgeries will be. Once this is over with, well…..look out summer, here I come!!!
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Pat Blythe – Symphonic Jazz (Part V)….an anniversary…..and music
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags "Rhapsody In Blue", Aeolian Hall New York, An Experiment in Modern Music, Anton Dvořák, big band jazz, DBAWIS, Don Redman, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, George Gershwin, Henry Mancini, Jazz, luvthemusic, National Conservatory of Music, orchestral jazz, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Pat Metheny, Paul Whiteman, Snarky Puppy, Stan Getz, Stan Kenton, symphonic jazz, Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, The Pink Panther on February 26, 2020 by segariniPat Blythe – Festivals, a little Snarky Puppy, Quisha Wint and SING!….plus Music!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Cosmic Ray, CSARN, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Bullen, Guenther Kapelle, Harpdog Brown, Hogtown Smoke, M.A.D!, Michael Dunstan, Murad Gunduz, Pat Blythe, Peter Montreuil, Quincy Bullen, Quisha Wint, Ray Scott, Robbie Lane and The Disciples, Roxanne Tellier, Sam Taylor, SING! Toronto, Snarky Puppy, Steve Grant, The Joint, Thunder Dome Sounds, Toney Springer, Toronto Reference Library, Tre-Michael Bullen, Wild T and The Spirit on May 23, 2018 by segariniSo, I’ve been doing some cogitating, ruminating, deliberating, pondering, considering and generally thinking. My first loves are music, dance, writing and photography. Not necessarily in that order but they’re all a number one and blend together rather agreeably…..well…..except for the dance. It’s a little more physical. You have to visualize that one. (okay, you can stop laughing now). I began penning this weekly diatribe over three years ago writing about women in music which graduated to some of the leading ladies of blues and subsequently all those ballsy women of rock ‘n’ roll. Somehow I graduated, or drifted (depending on how you look at it) into writing about all the explosion of talent here in The Big Smoke. I’ve been covering as much as one body will allow me to for the past two-and-a-half years.
Roxanne Tellier – Touring Murmuration Nation with Emily Saliers
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Amy Ray, Atlanta, Black Lives Matter, Bob Segarini, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don Saliers, Emily Saliers, Georgia, Hothouse Flowers, Indigo Girls, Jennifer Nettles. NRA, Jonatha Brooke, KT Tunstall, Living Colour, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Lyris Hung, Mod Club, murmuration, Murmuration Nation, Rachel Eckroth, Robert “Sput” Searight, Roxanne Tellier, Snarky Puppy, Standing Rock, Stephen King, Sugarland, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tim LeFebvre, Toronto, Tragically Hip, Tristin Chipman, Watershed, Will Calhoun, Women’s March on November 19, 2017 by segariniIf you came of age in the 90s, you’ll likely remember Amy Ray and Emily Saliers as the Indigo Girls. Their music was the background music of the indie lifestyle, and indeed, they seemed to be everywhere, racking up Gold and Platinum records, receiving a Grammy in 1990 for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and becoming part of our mass consciousness, referenced in such diverse environs as Stephen King‘s Rose Madder, and the television series, Will and Grace, South Park, and The Big Bang Theory.
Pat Blythe – The Blushing Brides and Smooth Jazz
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Bob Segarini, Chaudiere Club, Claude Jones, DBAWIS, Desmond Leahy, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Inglis, Eddie Bullen, Gene Krupa, Gina Hargitay, Goddo, James Green, Jeff Jones, Larnell Lewis, Liberty Silver, London Bluesfest, Louis Armstrong., Matthew Greenberg, Maurice Raymond, Michael Dunstan, Miss Jamaica World, ONES Show, Pat Blythe, Quincy Bullen, Quisha Wint, RCA Records, Red Rider, Rob Cooper, Rockpile, Sascha Tukatsch, Smooth Jazz Cruise, Snarky Puppy, Strawberry Records, The Blushing Brides, The Brides, The Carpet Frogs, The Ink Spots, The River Gambler, Vic Cassis on September 13, 2017 by segariniHoly summer!!! The weather is simply gorgeous. Warm and sunny….Mother Nature has apparently had a relapse or she’s feeling a bit guilty about the rather insipid summer we just…..I don’t know…..experienced? Let’s see…..what else…..day-to-day shit you don’t need to hear about but I will say this, the homemade grape jelly IS AWESOME!!!! Made from my own concord grapes, the vines are now 20 years old. Every year it’s a battle between me and the urban wildlife. Just who plucks the most grapes? The ones left behind or dropped from the vines eventually ferment, providing the neighbourhood with a little late night comical relief as the raccoons waltz about, stumbling and bumbling until they flop over in a deep slumber. The following night is unusually quiet as they nurse their hangovers.