Welcome to Five Link Friday. Every Friday I share 5 of my favorite links found online. Enjoy! Please add your own favorites in the comments below! 1) Sometimes as musicians we forget that if we really want something we need to go after it. It’s not just about playing well. In fact, I would say [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday – this is where I share with you some of my favorite recent links. Have one of your own? (Or five.) Please share in the comments below! 1) A while back I took a survey on how musicians and composers make money. Here is the results of that survey. I [...]

1) Ever used a vision board? I’m the crafty type and I like creating collages and such. This blog got me thinking that maybe I used my fun little hobby to help my career. What do you think? How Artists Can Use a Vision Board 2) This is a really interesting episode of Finding Your [...]

Little background: I started Doublers Collective with the help of Mike Crotty in 2010. The goal was to play a whole bunch of different instruments in a progressive jazz setting, commission and perform new music, and do performance clinics at schools. It’s such an exciting project. Find out more about Doublers Collective, including some videos [...]

Last weekend I did a Doubling Clinic with Mike Crotty at the Highland Jazz Festival. This particular festival is in its third year and is one of my favorite festivals. Run by two of my friends, the Highland High School Band directors, Kevin Bennett and Lewis Nelson, it is one of the few festivals where [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday – the fun Friday post where I hip you to five of my favorite links of the week. Please feel free to share your own favorite links in the comments below! 1) Chris Potter transcription of Confirmation – my dear friend Adam just posted this on his website and it’s [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday – the fun Friday post where I hip you to five of my favorite links of the week. Please feel free to share your own favorite links in the comments below!   1) Free Flute Sheet Music – http://www.flutetunes.com/ – Free music, including midi and accompaniment. Worth bookmarking! 2) Are [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is where I post 5 of my favorite links from the week. I hope you enjoy and please check out the FLF’s from previous weeks. If you have a favorite link please post it in comments! (Sorry I missed last week – it was one of those insane weekends [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is where I post 5 of my favorite links from the week. I hope you enjoy and please check out the FLF’s from previous weeks. If you have a favorite link please post it in comments!   1) Highland Jazz Festival This is an annual event that happens here [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is where I post 5 of my favorite links from the week. I hope you enjoy and please check out the FLF’s from previous weeks. If you have a favorite link please post it in comments! 1) 3 Ways to Reduce Online Noise and Get More Done – a [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is where I post 5 of my favorite links from the week. I hope you enjoy and please check out the FLF’s from previous weeks. If you have a favorite link please post it in comments! 1) Ten Lessons that the Arts Teach 2) From Alfred Ledger Lines Blog [...]

Imagine walking thru the hallways of a hotel conference center and around every corner is live jazz. Imagine people of all walks of life – students to the jazz greats and everything in between milling the halls, chatting with one another, smiling. Imagine having your choice of clinics to attend – technology, promotion, practicing, etc. [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday #2. If you missed the first one, you can find it here. 1) “My goal in life is to play better tomorrow then I did today” – James Moody Check out the other videos from that same interview. 2) At the JEN conference last weekend I met a trumpet player [...]

Copyright © 2011 maxplanation.com From Monica Shriver, aka saxymoni, the founder and director of Doublers Collective       Doublers Collective is trying to raise some money. Wanna know why? This whole fundraising idea may seem a little out of the ordinary to a lot of people. Truthfully it’s all new to me too. I [...]

Inspired by this post from my fellow doubler Bret Pimentel What instruments do you play in your profession, and in what capacity do you play them? I play piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano, alto, tenor and bari saxophone professionally in jazz combos, big bands, rock bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras, as a soloist, and in [...]