A dark, beautiful, sprawling album, 'Blue Moves' defies easy categorization. It's got no shortage of six and seven-minute epics featuring lush orchestration; it's also got the intimate, sad single "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word." There are tossed-off instrumentals and the sweeping "T...
A dark, beautiful, sprawling album, 'Blue Moves' defies easy categorization. It's got no shortage of six and seven-minute epics featuring lush orchestration; it's also got the intimate, sad single "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word." There are tossed-off instrumentals and the sweeping "T...
A dark, beautiful, sprawling album, 'Blue Moves' defies easy categorization. It's got no shortage of six and seven-minute epics featuring lush orchestration; it's also got the intimate, sad single "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word." There are tossed-off instrumentals and the sweeping "T...
Composing music is a joyful act of creation. But sometimes it turns out to be a frustrating act of wasted time. Why is this? Is it because you don’t have that special “spark” that the greats had? No. It is simply because of your mindset approaching the composition. ...
TM:I think after this album right here, people will be like “It’s ok to do that kind of shit [jazz and hip-hop] on an album.” People used to say that there’s too much music or the sax is too soft or there’s too many chords — a lot of people used to say that...
July 25, 2012 at 05:26 PM ·Roy - what a great post! Get a great note and then worry about embelishment next. I wonder if learning vibrato is one of the curses of the violin since it makes it possible to produce an good sound from an average bow command. ...
but it was just enough to whet appetites for a Season 2. From Renee Elise Goldsberry’s Wickie Roy going Patti LuPone on an audience dressed like Jim Carrey from “The Mask” to Sara Bareilles singing a song about the fear of losing a tampon, every episode had me laughing and singing ...
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TM:I think after this album right here, people will be like “It’s ok to do that kind of shit [jazz and hip-hop] on an album.” People used to say that there’s too much music or the sax is too soft or there’s too many chords — a lot of people used to sa...