Here is a neat piece I did for CBC arts Canada a couple years back on the rob Clutton band.

I finally have a computer that can actually view it.
tim
http://artscanada.cbc.ca/artscanada.jsp?startingPieceLabel=subswing

there is a great lineup on Jazzbeat tommorrow night. Jean Derome with his Quebec pals playing standards (could be interesting eh?) as well as a live Scofield quartet concert. although Sco is a highly proven artist with a large, interesting body of work I am less interested in what he does recently. I am still optimistic as I love hearing a great guitarist play great music (not always a given)

http://www.cbc.ca/jazzbeat/

Hope I remember to tune in after the Leaf game!

go Mats go.

tp

My friend Steve was pointing out that my blog is "not the real me." (maybe a Who quote...eh steve? hahah ) Simply because it is a public journal. good point.

I really do type off the top of my head most of the time (as you can tell by the lousy, unedited writing style) I dont plan what I am going to write before I sit down to do so. like right now, not sure why I am writing this at all.

But...occasionally I do think of things during the day I want to blog. I almost always forget them later. But, just momemts ago I read the Robert Everet-Green review of the Exclaim anniversary tour that I wanted to see and quite enjoyed his writing (as I often do)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040417/EXCLAIM17//?query=Exclaim

It was so nice to see someone else pointing out that there was no Canadian artist on the bill of an anniversary show. I am often sticking my neck out and making comments like this but rarely get much support. I do feel we have to make Con-Can type efforts in presenters/promoters (are you reading Ron?) to get more Canadian art into the hearts and souls of our own.

I should point out that Exclaim is a really good paper that I read each month, buy ads and highly support. They too are very supportive of Canadian music between their covers. (this made the concerts lineup that much more suprising)

tim@guildwoodrecords.com

The Images festival looks so good this year! I havent been to the website but the program is great...as always. There is so much good stuff...not sure which I will catch yet. Sam Shalabi from Montreal improvising with film should be good.

would like to have seen Tom Verlaine with films by Leger and that great American photographer...oh...memory....damn.

I am streaming wfmu while I type . always fun, never dull...sometimes amazing. It is in the same cutting edge spirtit that the Images Festival has that attracts me to both.
tim@guildwoodrecords.com

p.s. Leafs won tonight!

Oh my I am overdue here...how about a poem for starters:

hockey, driving, la belle province
kids, hockey driving, music....ahhh music
gastrononique! Ohhh...driving...
hockey, beer....mmmm
driving
I really like Toronto

go leafs go