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Oct 07

Exams Again: Getting to Grips with Jazz Sax Grade 3

(To any sax players out there: yes, my fingers should never be that far from the keys – one of many bad habits I’m trying to break)
Last week I gratefully received, from my friendly postman, the book of tunes for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) Jazz saxophone grade 3 exam. [...]

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Oct 07

World Class Breakfasts, Trees, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Breakfasts, People, Coffee, Steak, Corn and Breakfasts – but let’s not mention the pancakes

It has been many weeks since I returned from Canada, and whilst it was full of some of the most stimulating experiences of my life, I am painfully conscious that I still haven’t blogged about it, and my several hundred photographs languish unseen. It’s perverse.Of course, it’s the very richness of the trip that makes [...]

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Oct 07

Roger Scruton on Conceptual Art & JAR on Music

Last September, I had a debate with Brian Rowan in the comments of one of my blog posts. The debate was about music: whether you can say, for example, that Stravinsky is better than James Blunt. I said yes, you can, and Brian said no, you can’t. Well, I saw this article in the American [...]