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 [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday #3. Enjoy! 1) The 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert Webcast 2) One of my favorite videos on why we need to fail to succeed. 3) Think Twitter is a waste of time? Can’t find the point? Here’s a good article explaining how to use it and what’s [...]

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 [...]

10 things that hold you back – just replace music / relationship as needed. http://www.active.com/fitness/Articles/10_things_that_can_hold_you_back.htm?cmp=17-8-375

NEA Survey Finds Jazz Musicians Are Largely Male And Well Educated But Many Are Underpaid And Lack Benefits Respondents Call for Affordable Health Care, Pension Plans, Education Programs and More Philanthropic Support From 2003, but still really interesting. Wonder how much has changed in the last 8 years? Read the rest: NEA News – Jazz [...]

Bandleading 101 – great advice from the Airmen of Note director Joe Jackson

Artists, as a species, are amazing people. And America, as a general rule, does not fully get this. Show me a good artist and I will show you a highly educated, highly creative, highly passionate, highly driven human being. If they’re a performing artist, I will show you someone who breathes teamwork. I will show [...]

http://sivers.org/15-years – A great post about remembering that it takes time and energy (practice!) to get good at something. Sometimes we forget what we had to do to get somewhere.

Some great ideas on what to do with your summer downtime (especially being self-employed): http://www.suzemuse.com/2011/05/the-lull

Interesting blog on Teachers and Professional Development. Read the comments too! http://mctownsley.blogspot.com/2010/11/administrator-reality-five-months-on.html

American Federation of Musician’s petition regarding instruments carried onto airplanes. Please check out link below! http://www.afm.org/carryon