Considering the previous posts, I thought I’d be a good time to post my transcription of Donna Lee (Variations)

So here it is!

A transcription of Doug Riley’s Shoot from his solo piano record ‘Freedom’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

I have posted an interesting performance review written by Peter Hum from my November performance at Cafe Paradiso in Ottawa.

It ties in nicely with my reflections on solo piano.

You can download it here.

Some writings that I’ve read and enjoyed over the last month or so:

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Wired (Link)
Giant Steps: The Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch | NYTimes.com (Link)
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up | Wired (Link)
The Prospects of Recording | Glenn Gould (Link)
Writing Good English | William Zinsser (Link)
Mind - Research on How the Brain Perceives Time | NYTimes.com (Link)
Media: A world of hits | The Economist (Link)
Modern procrastination | Seth Godin (Link)

A transcription of Bud Powell’s Dusk in Sandi from his record ‘The Genius of Bud Powell’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

I have posted the interview I did with CBC on Oct 17/09. I brought in the music and we discussed! Here was my contribution to the playlist:

C Jam Blues – Oscar Peterson
Loro – Egberto Gismonti
Eight Concert Etudes Op. 40 No. 1 Prelude – Nikolai Kapustin
Prelude & Che fai – Pucinni’s La Traviata
Peace Dance (Excerpt) – Doug Riley
Sister Kim (Excerpt) – Kirk Macdonald
Music for 18 Musicians (Excerpt) – Steve Reich
Let The Good Times Roll – Ray Charles

Some writings that I’ve read and enjoyed over the last month or so:

Seth Godin: Who controls your media? (Link)
Hybrid Education 2.0 - Inside Higher Ed (Link)
Nobody Has A Million Twitter Followers - Anil Dash (Link)
Music to the (ringing) ears: New therapy targets tinnitus (Link)
How the Internet Changed Writing in the 2000s (Link)
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans (Link)
How the iPhone Could Reboot Education (Link)
Roots Music Canada: Taking a Free Culture Approach to Music (Link)

Happy New Year!

I thought I’d start the year with posting my transcription of Bud Powell’s Parisian Thoroughfare (from ‘The Genius of Bud Powell’)

Hope you enjoy!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I’ve posted my performance of Vince Guaraldi’s Skating, live from a Christmas concert I performed on Dec 11/09. Hope you enjoy!

Also, I’ll be taking a blogging break and will be back on January 4th, 2010.

See you in the new year!

I’ve posted my performance of Oscar Peterson’s Hymn to Freedom from my performance at Hermann’s in Victoria BC on October 10, 2009.

Or download it here.

A transcription of Bud Powell’s The Fruit from his record ‘The Genius of Bud Powell’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

Some writings that I’ve read and enjoyed over the last month:

• Fine-tuning: composer reinvents the piano (Link)
• Seth's Blog: Boundary makers (Link)
• In The New Content Economy, Consumers Want... (Link)
• The link between exercise and more brainpower (Link)
• Is the virtuoso pianist a dying breed? (Link)
• Jazz connotations (some meta-blather about shifty, loaded, lazy and vague words) (Link)
• Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension (Link)
• First and Last Competitors Have the Edge (Link)
• How the AvantGrand, Yamaha's new electronic piano, improves upon a 300-year-old instrument (Link)

These are my two favourite pictures from my tour in October. I had a good laugh. No hard feelings of course! They probably ran out of letters!

I’ve posted my rendition of Bud Powell’s Hallucinations from Solo. Hope you enjoy!

I have updated my reviews page with some articles written for the recent tour!

They include:

“Donnellys Classically Non-Traditional” - Oct 22/09 | Dale De Ruiter | Kamloops This Week (Full Article)
“Jazz Meets Opera” - Oct 16/09 | Mike Youds | Kamloops Daily News (Full Article) (News Article)
“Tickling a Musical Fantasy” - Oct 15/09 | Dale Bass | Kamloops This Week (Full Article) (News Article)
A Perfect Mix of Jazz and Opera - Sept 28/09 | Sharon Fitzsimmins | Barrie Examiner (Full Article)

A transcription of Bud Powell’s Hallucinations (Budo) from his record ‘The Genius of Bud Powell’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

I have posted a video of me playing my Cinderella Medley (So This is Love/A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes - David/Livingston/Hoffman) at the Calgary Jazz Festival in June 2009. Hope you enjoy!

A transcription of Doug Riley’s Freedom from his solo piano record ‘Freedom’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

A transcription of Doug Riley’s Theme For Adele from his solo piano record ‘Freedom’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

I have posted transcription of Doug Riley playing Oscar Peterson’s Hymn to Freedom from his solo piano record ‘Freedom,’ Hope you enjoy!

I have posted transcription of Doug Riley playing Bill Dobbins’ Roads Travelled & Days Gone By from his solo piano record ‘Freedom,’ Hope you enjoy!

I have posted some pictures from National Music Camp 2009! Thanks to Karen Reeves for the great photos.

The faculty:

Larry Shields, Director
John MacLeod, Trumpet
Jason Logue, Trumpet
Lina Allemano, Trumpet
Kelly Jefferson, Sax
Tara Davidson, Sax
Colleen Allen, Sax
Will Carn, Trombone
Scott Suttie, Trombone
Chris Donnelly, Piano
Brian De Wolfe, Guitar
Mike McClennan, Bass
Colin Kingsmore, Drums

A transcription of Doug Riley’s Child Eyes from his solo piano record ‘Freedom’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

A transcription of Doug Riley’s Peace Dance from his solo piano record ‘Freedom’ is now available on my Post page. Hope you enjoy!

I have posted some pictures from my recent performance at the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival on June 26/09 (Link). Thanks to Lyle Rebbeck for having me, and thanks to Roger Moses for the great pictures!

Back in Toronto!

In case you didn’t hear:

1st Prize (Shared) - Beka Gochiashvili (13 year old from Georgia)
1st Prize (Shared) - Isfar Sarabsky (Azerbaijan)
2nd Prize - Franz Von Chossy (Germany)
Encouragement Prize - Claude Diallo (Switzerland)
Encouragement Prize - Kuba Pluzek (Poland)
Public Prize - Isfar Sarabsky (Azerbaijan)

The judges:
Chucho Valdés (Cuba) - presiding judge
Al Copley (USA)
Moncef Genoud (Switzerland)
André Manoukian (France)
Denis Matsuev (Russia)
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (Azerbaijan)
Leo Tardin (Switzerland)

I’ll be posting a blog about this in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I’ve posted my performance of Bill Evans’ Very Early on the post page (Link). Hope you enjoy, stay tuned!

Warning: Light blogging ahead. I’m off to Montreux tomorrow.

Here’s another one of the tracks I submitted as part of my Montreux application. It’s Herbie Hancock’s Chan’s Song. (Link)

Be back soon!

I have posted two things for your interest!

First is a transcription of my rendition of Very Early from Solo. Hope you enjoy!

Second, pictures from my concert at Remenyi House of Music. Many thanks to Alex Thompson and the Remenyi’s for having me!

I’m happy to announce that I’ve been selected as a finalist in the 2009 Bosendorfer Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition in July. Two things are for sure: I am super excited, and It will make for some interesting blog topics!

I have posted one of the tracks I submitted as part of my application. It’s Joe Henderson’s Isotope. (Link)

Hope you enjoy!

Congrats to all the National Jazz Awards winners! Thanks to Bill and Kris King for a great show. For anyone interested, here’s my performance of Donna Lee (Variations). Hope you enjoy!

You can access this video and many others on my Post page.