Music
Posts about the music I listen to or the music I play. Things about the music industry usually don't go here (they end up, almost always, in the outrageous! category.
2007.10.14 20:39:50 EDT Much about tuning Man, I hate to do link dumps, but there are just so many nice fun things that I read about today. First, just learned about Tim Storms the current world record holder for the lowest note produced by a
2007.08.18 11:04:12 EDT RIP: Ralph Alpher; Max Roach Ralpha Alpher, 86, passed away August 12. He was an early proponent of Big Bang theory, and predicted the residual cosmic microwave background. For most students of physics, however, he is most famous
2006.08.21 14:36:39 EDT Buddy's Blues Buddy Rich, one of the best drummers ever, and also one of the world's biggest pricks. He was well known for being verbally abusive to his band members. Now someone took the time and transcribed his r
2006.02.01 22:06:23 EST Emil 周華健, a.k.a. Emil Chow, is one of my favorite Mandarin singer. The release of his CD Emil and Friends coincided with the end of 8th grade for me, immediately prior to my leaving Ta
2005.12.03 23:30:33 EST CJE/PUJE2 concert today Concert today. Titled "Parker Shorter Nelson Nimmons", referring to the composers of the music that we played, i.e. Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, Wayne Shorter, Oliver Nelson, and Phil Nimmons. The first
2005.10.16 00:35:39 EDT Journal: CJE plays Kansas City Suite Concert today went well. More on that later. Last night, my sister T arrived home with two friends: she sort of forcibly recruited them to come to listen to my concert. For that I am grateful. The two
2005.09.16 18:08:05 EDT Perplexing audition results Yay! For Me! Okay, I am actually more perplexed than happy at this moment. So, I went to Woolworth to check on the Jazz Ensemble audition results. To be honest, I wasn't quite expecting it to be poste
2005.09.15 23:00:56 EDT Two-day Journal, in which Willie discovers the Blue Line and Auditions for PUJE Yesterday I made an awesome discovery: the campus shuttle service. Actually, I knew that they existed since sophomore year, but while living on campus, taking the shuttle from one place to the other f
2005.09.12 22:05:17 EDT Department Reception; Cooking Journal Today was the reception for first year grads. I woke up earlier than usual (8:30am), showered, dressed, doodled around, had breakfast, and left home at 10:30. Got to school by 11. Spent about half an
2005.05.08 13:00:00 EDT Personal News Argh... itai! Funny, after Friday's drill by Coach Jones, I was feeling quite alright on Saturday morning when I woke up. I was a little tight on my left oblique and that was it. But after playing for

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Creations (12) My creations, could be musical, literary, graphical, or in other formats, but generally fall under the category of Art.
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Music (10) Posts about the music I listen to or the music I play. Things about the music industry usually don't go here (they end up, almost always, in the outrageous! category.
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