Archives for: "May 2011"
Raindrops
05/30/11 16:11, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: composition, fiction, glenn gould, music, ornette coleman, paul bourgeois, pianist, piano, raindrops, savant, schostakovich, time signatures
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
He couldn’t sleep. The rain pounded on the windows, a low irregular drumbeat. He began to hear his own breathing and the click-chink of the radiator. There was no pattern, but his mind couldn’t let them… more »
Lies Are More Honest than Truth
05/23/11 01:03, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: barefootmusicnews, beatles, blues, fiction, jazz, julian lennon, kathmandu, lies, lucy in the sky with diamonds, media, music, news, paul bourgeois, stories, trumpet, truth
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
It sounds weird, doesn’t it? But it is easier to tell the truth about stuff if you are making it up. Otherwise you have to contend with permission forms and people saying “I don’t want my story… more »
A Trumpet Player in Kathmandu (The Runner, Part 4 of 4)
05/16/11 06:37, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: ashram, charlie parker, coltrane, fiction, jazz, kathmandu, miles davis, music, paul bourgeois, trumpet
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
India gained independence in 1947, a triumph of passive resistance, the same year Pete Seeger published “We Shall Overcome.” And in 1989, when I was in the Banwasi Seva Ashram, “We Shall… more »
First Annual Welcome to Rockville Festival Sizzles in Jacksonville
05/13/11 23:09, by wakitu, Categories: Music News, Festivals and Events, BFMN Exclusive, Jim Messer, Review , Tags: festival, godsmack, halestorm, jim messer, metropolitan park, puddle of mudd, rev theory, seether, stone sour, welcome to rockville
Photos and Review by Jim Messer
Sunday, May 8, was a little more than Mother’s Day. It brought the very first “Welcome to Rockville” festival to Metropolitan Park in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It was hot… in several… more »
A Trumpet Player in Kathmandu (Kathmandu Jam, Part 3 of 4)
05/09/11 03:48, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: charlie parker, coltrane, fiction, jazz, kathmandu, miles davis, music, paul bourgeois, trumpet
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
(In the previous episode the main character had searched for Joe Townsend, the mysterious trumpet player in Kathmandu, but in the end it is Joe who finds him.)
I looked at the old man, Joe Townsend, standing between… more »
A Trumpet Player in Kathmandu (Hide and Seek, Part 2 of 4)
05/02/11 03:25, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: charlie parker, coltrane, fiction, jazz, kathmandu, miles davis, music, paul bourgeois, trumpet
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
(In the previous episode the main character had passed out drunk in a jazz club in Nepal and then had been sent home by the mysterious trumpet player.)
I woke with my head pounding, the vague memory of the trumpet… more »
