Do Toronto musicians read my blog?...yes. Do Toronto musician's parents read my blog?...haha

The Red Guitar is going through some changes to make sure we are going
to exist past summer 2006. Our weekday (including Thursday) shows no
longer offer a guarantee. We understand how this changes the
relationship with the musicians as the Red Guitar becomes more of a
showcase type situation. However we do believe that the combination of
providing this great venue, and continuing to advertise to let our
regular and growing clientele know about your gig will give you a great
place to perform your new and original music and allow you to make some
decent money when performances are well attended.

So...having read the above description to the changes at the RG I hope it will be fairly clear (obvious) that we are not looking for musicians for weekends as there are many to choose from but I am interested in hearing from musicians (don't send Cds!!) who have a show they would like to present at the RG on a Wednesday or Thursday. We need people who are willing to bring some people out on those nights. ie. you have something you want to present and you want people to come and hear it. This is not the old fashioned paradigm of musician hired to entertain in club. (yes...our weekends are going to be somewhat like that) This is the showcase/"jazz is art"/time's are a changin paradigm.

Perhaps this post will get a little feedback?
email me: tim@guildwoodrecords.com

tim
www.GuildwoodRecords.com

Please vote for the Tim Posgate Hornband in Electric and Acoustic Group of the Year at the National Jazz Awards

I didn't get the bills paid, or mail my paper work in or clean the floor or clean up my piles of Cds or all that stuff but I wrote a piece of music I am really happy with.

It really makes all that other stuff seem so unimportant. I know...balance..you have to do it all to keep it moving etc. But really, this piece of music might played and remembered for the next Century (you never know...right?) I really like it. I wrote it on piano, in three voices to be played by Jazzstory. When I was all finished, I sat down to practise guitar and realized if I tuned my 6th string to Eb it was a really nice, solo guitar piece. Funny.

tim
www.GuildwoodRecords.com

Please vote for the Tim Posgate Hornband in Electric and Acoustic Group of the Year at the National Jazz Awards

I tuned into CKLN hoping to hear the return of my fave DJ mike hansen but instead there is a four hour Wes Montgomery special. How cool is that. (way to go Tien!!) It is 88.1 FM here in Toronto.

It is a great reminder of how much I love the music of the this great guitarist but also that I don't want to play like this. I would like to be able to and then continue to work on sounding more like me. (it only took me twenty years or so to figure that out!...haha)

Check it out NOW!

tim

www.GuildwoodRecords.com

Please vote for the Tim Posgate Hornband in Electric and Acoustic Group of the Year at the National Jazz Awards

Wow....that is a pleasant suprise! The Tim Posgate Hornband was nominated for Acoustic Group of the Year and Electric Group of the year for the 2006 National Jazz Awards.

Please vote and tell your friends to vote online (see link below)

Kind of like Olympics I am just happy to be nominated. (but it would be pretty sweet to win one!)

tim
www.GuildwoodRecords.com

Please vote for the Tim Posgate Hornband in Electric and Acoustic Group of the Year at the National Jazz Awards

(Also nominated is Quinsin Nachoff of the Tim Posgate Hornband for: Album of the Year and Saxophonist of the year and Rob Clutton of Tim Posgate's Jazzstory for: Bassist of the year)

Sure Canada lost 2-0 to Finland. But...I made some Banana Muffins from scratch. mmmmmmm

Seriously, it was that kind of day, fun, winter, family. Good. I am really anxious to dig my teeth into some new work, composition, practising etc. and it is all about to start big with my upcoming Jazzstory gigs and York University with Ben Grossman on March 1.

I really need to get my guitar tuned up but not sure if I will have a chance before then. I also have a lot of Red Guitar work to do as we are going to have a full lineup during the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival.

That will be fun as we will most certainly represent a unique lineup from the other venues and clubs.

Stay tuned here for more details.

Happy Winter!

tim
www.GuildwoodRecords.com