Yearly Archives: 2011

Fridays at Monboddo

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Following the success of this regular gig over the last 6 month or so we will be back on Friday nights at Monboddo bar at the Point Hotel in Bread Street, Edinburgh.  The audience is building for this fun gig with a wide variety of charts from soul to latin […]

Selmer Cigar Cutter

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I call my horn “Bessie” – she’s silver “cigar cutter” tenor sax from 1933.  Ok , she is a bit heavier than a modern horn,  and maybe the G sharp key sticks a bit (as does the F sharp),  and the plating is definitely a little faded (in the classic car […]

NODA Conference Oct 2011

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The sound of Seventeen big band has been booked again to play at this fun event for The National Operatic and Dramatic Association, where we have about 400 members running amok at Peebles Hydro. Last year we had at least 9 ugly sisters (all members utilise their costume box for the […]

Diary of a practicing Jazz Musician

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Have spent the last two evenings practice working on playing augmented scales in thirds and fourths with lower neighbour tone lead in. Now just wondering where I’m gonna use this stuff…. Did find a very nice 2 5 1 pattern a la Sonny Stitt, which I nicked from Eric Alexander […]