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• What do you call a bass with six strings? April 11, 2013
  That would be a six string semi-acoustic bass guitar, I do believe. And the only person I know who plays one is Aussie bassist Christopher Hale. He is in New York for a month or so, doing what us musicians do best here - playing gigs, meeting new people, being inspired, creating new ideas, eating, drinking. I knew Chris when I lived in Melbourne between 1999 […]
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• Possibly the greatest living composer on the planet is... April 4, 2013
  Egberto Gismonti - the Brazilian pianist, guitarist and composer. He was born in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, and has over fifty albums to his name, including many releases on the ECM record label. He is equally amazing at playing the piano as he is at the guitar, and his compositions - well, to get an idea, just check out a little bit of this (on piano):http://w […]
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• What's it like playing in an all female big band? April 2, 2013
  This week Sherrie Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra celebrates the 20th anniversary of their first concert with a performance at the Iridium Jazz Club on Wednesday April 3. A lot has happened to the band since then - countless tours, standing ovations and early morning lobby calls, lots of laughs and general shenanigans. Hmm. LOTS of shenanigans, actually. […]
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• What I know about Fabian Almazan and Geoffrey Keezer January 25, 2013
  There has to be a really, really good reason for me to live 10,000 miles away from my closest family and friends. And I'd like to talk about two of them.I met Fabian Almazan while studying at Manhattan School of Music between 2003-05. Hopefully he won't be too mad at me for revealing this, but we both used to work a regular ushering shift at the sc […]
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