Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois People say Jazz is hard. It isn’t true. It doesn’t even exist. It’s a flavour. The rhythms are kind of complex sometimes and the melodies do interesting things. It’s music that plays with… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois I’m in a really cynical mood right now. Some fool once said “If you try your best you will become really famous and then you will be happy.” If I was the one who said it, I was an idiot at the time.… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois I’ve written a few articles on the importance of theory since I have come to BareFoot MusicNews, some really tongue-in-cheek, and I have learned a lot.  And I hope I have improved as a player through the… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois Being 2011, a new year again, I reflect on my miserable and wonderful life and wonder where I am going. I have to face some harsh things, strip myself naked and put it all out there for myself to look at. The ugly… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois On Wednesday I went to a daycare party. The woman on accordion called the little children up and let them press her keyboard. It’s a reed instrument, you know. Bellows like an old-fashioned pump organ. Their… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois On the 11th of December we did a Christmas concert. I mean, it was a wonderful concert.  Nobody booed. However, people were expecting “Jingle Bells” and what they got was a couple middle-aged rockers… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois Hey, people. This week has been crazy. I have been running back and forth and editing and negotiating… I’m going mad, I tell you, quite mad! My mind is crumbling. My heart is dying. But while I write Van… more »