Tag: "jazz"
Is the Harmonica Player Really a Musician? - Part 1
06/14/10 00:27, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bar fight, blues, harmonica, jazz, keys, music theory, musician, rhythm, schecter diamond series, the blue monsters
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
Dan Grigor said he loved these articles because they were “a wonderful look into the mind of the working musician.” I don’t know about that, but it warms my wretched heart.
I’m a singer and a harmonica… more »
A Whole Movie of Jazz
05/31/10 05:24, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: 1948, a song is born, benny goodman, danny kaye, howard hawks, jazz, louis armstrong
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
If you haven’t guessed it yet I am a movie freak, and I love movies about music. I want to share a movie with you. Wouldn’t it be really cool if you could see Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Buck and Bubbles… more »
Dead Air Kills
04/26/10 03:17, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: dj, jazz, radio, rock, station
Musical Musings
by Paul Bourgeois
The first rule in being a radio jockey is to keep talking. It doesn’t matter what the hell you say. Dead air kills. I’m telling you this because, to tell the truth, I’m running out of ideas. So… more »
A Road to Hip Hop
04/05/10 00:30, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bfmn, black, blues, branford marsalis, digable planets, duke ellington, guru, hip-hop, jazz, last poets, new york, paul bourgeois, red hot _ cool, stolen moments, waok, watts prophets
Musical Musings
by Paul Bourgeois
I just had this discussion with one of my students, a girl from Detroit. She told me I couldn’t know much about hip-hop because I am a white Canadian, and she’s right.
As GURU (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes… more »
Bebopping at Midnight
03/15/10 00:08, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: Welcome, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: april fool, be-bop, coltrane, dexter gordon, herbie hancock, jazz, round midnight, thelonius monk, tunings, war
By Paul Bourgeois
I was born in 1964, at Midnight on April 31st, and I grew up on my mother’s record collection. I remember listening to Paul Whiteman’s orchestration with Gershwin on piano, cover all blues and modern art, a copy of the… more »
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