Jazz is not for wankers......

Just read an amazing comment on another blog;

http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/2010/11/forumesque-3.html#comments

Hoping to get permission to reproduce some of it and expand a little on a subject close to my heart.

Jazz is not for wankers it's for everyone who is prepared to listen with their heart and head working together in tandem.

Last night I saw how such poetry and motion can be accomplished with the subtlest of touches. Jamie Oehlers, James Muller, Sam Keevers, Tim Firth and Cameron Undy at http://www.venue505.com on a Wednesday night played to a small but passionate audience.

The music flowed like water flowing over rocks, with space and quiet and noise and rhythm seamlessly combining.

More on this when I have time to write something a little more erudite and academic with a touch of the experiential.

First

Call it self absorption or reading too many blogs or a fascination with the internet and what's possible but here goes my attempt at a blog.

For those that don't know me a list will suffice. For those that do and are still interested in following the tangents musical or otherwise that my brain goes on then ignore said list and wait and see.

This blog will be about ( in no particular order)

Jazz in Sydney and elsewhere and other music I love

Rock Climbing, mountaineering and other risky sports

Cooking and food and how to make your friends happy by filling their bellies

Second hand clothes shopping

Teaching

Historical tangents

Intellectual curiousities

Here goes.....make sure you've got your towel