Welcome to Five Link Friday! Today I decided to do something a little different and post 5 of my favorite YouTube Videos of the week. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to share you favorite links of the week in the comments below! 1) WDR Big Band: Basstronaut – Monday night I went to a concert [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is my 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. Clean out your horns! We all swab out our horns when we are done playing (or at [...]

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 #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 [...]

All music is played by ear.   This statement is very profound to me. For many years I let myself believe that I had “bad ears” and there was nothing I could do about it. From an early age I was able to “think” fast enough to get by, making good choices often enough that [...]