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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 segarini

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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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.