“I think most artists are empathetic people. That’s the bane of being creative.” ~Christian Patrick, guitarist and lead vocalist for Heavy Static. Continue reading The Bane of Creativity: The Christian Patrick Interview
“My band is made up of a bunch of pretty intelligent people; we all have inquiring minds, and when we’re travelling together we often get talking about a lot of things. We know different people hold to specific religions or political beliefs but we’re very open-minded and we don’t really stick to any belief system, even though we are pretty cohesive in our political views.” Continue reading The Jimmy LaFave Interview
In Conversation With Michael Gauthier, Part I by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 26 2014-06-27 “One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?” – Bix Beiderbecke “Ahhh, those Jazz guys are just makin’ that stuff up!” – Homer Simpson Michael Gauthier is a Montreal-based musician who teaches jazz guitar at the University of Montreal and at McGill University. A fixture of the Montreal jazz scene, his memory houses a vast and irreplaceable knowledge of the history of jazz in Montreal since the sixties. Recently he … Continue reading Organically Honing the Art of Jazz
Inside Llewyn Davis Wanda Waterman Volume 22 Issue 13 2014-03-28 Film: Inside Llewyn Davis Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen “ . . . because wherever I sat— on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok— I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” – Sylvia Plath Watching Inside Llewyn Davis is like walking through a bombed-out city on a winter’s night in the company of your shadow self, who just can’t seem to stop talking about what a big fat nothing you are. (Read the … Continue reading Heavens to Betsy, This Film is Depressing
The Mindful Bard 