Big band season is here again and we don’t have much time to prepare for the first concert. The drummer is new and kinda cool, but gets out of control loud, lost, knows everything… same as the guy before.

Louis Prima and Benny Goodman Billboard Magazine Images Credit: Prima's picture appeared in a 1943 issue. Public domain. Goodman's appeared in a 1942 issue. Public domain. If any song is associated with

Before today's recommendation, thank the user @edje for making this post possible and for their support. Today!! An album you must listen to."the genius of Ray Charles" by Ray Charles. You have

SHAME... strait to artificial intelignece hell!!! We finally caught Tetrahedroseph performing live and playing multiple instruments while serving other musicians. How dare he not spend all his time

It was a weird Monday. Before big band, I woke up very early, 5am. I hosed out a fish box or two, perpetuated my secret collection of white shoes images, and witnessed a dock cart full of giant boat batteries

Here we go again on a Big Band Monday adventure. I'm grateful to have a place to excise my reading skills. I wish the drummers were better, but I guess we are all students. I'll do my best to keep this

This big band season will be simplified by recovered back and vanquished shoe problems. Pain is dumb. I arrived before the drummer. That’s not a good sign. Pro drummer would have been here early to prepare

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Big changes are coming for a big band. One of those unfortunate inevitability’s I guess. After tonight‘s rehearsal we have one more performance and then this semester is over. I don’t know if there will

I can snatch two pieces of paper that are two feet away out of the air while holding a #FenderJazzBassDeluxe. (Yes, the one that dives.) #bigband #orchestra

At this point I'm way behind in this Big Band series. I think I have good excuses, but expressing excuses becomes an unhealthy practice. If I practiced making up excuses to explain my musicianship I wouldn't

This originally started out as tangent within the next big band post I was planning and editing. This is now the art post featuring stuff from the same day as rehearsal 10, part 9 of my big band series.

This post will be about April 22nd's big band rehearsal 9, not the big band's rehearsal 8. I skipped the previous Monday's big band rehearsal for a day off, to save a whopping $6, and to finish my taxes

Like the title says, this video was made in 2017 and also appears on my YouTube channel. Youtube sucks because they don't use Steem, so never mind that. The smaller frame in this video features me on bass

It's the day after rehearsal 7. It is our big band's first concert of the semester and I get a ticket for unloading equipment. I parked near the red curb because the loading zone is full and far away.

It's 9am Monday morning and in my mind, this big band rehearsal 7 and our concert on the next day, have already started. That's why I'm in a massage chair. Cheap therapy is the name of my bass game. Practice

This day is a triple-header of tasks for me and a doubleheader for Music. Does that even make sense? I have three major things to do and two of them involve Music. The first musical deed will be performing

Rehearsal 4: I felt more confident for this rehearsal. Practice creates confidence because it creates mastery... or a greater illusion of mastery in this case. 😊 I have a long way to go and a concert

Three Monday's later and it is time for big band rehearsal 3 and a PARKING TICKET!?!? 🤯 Rehearsal 3: I didn't have fun. I wasn't prepared and I'll admit it because it makes me sound less like a bad bass

First listen to me struggling here at 19:54. (sneak peak at rehearsal 3) Continue reading if you wanna hear me ramble on about getting myself as far as the second rehearsal. Rehearsal 1: I missed it! I