That CD Shop is having a small promotion on a few Gold edition CDs. So I picked up two Stacey Kent albums at only $15 and 16.
I also purchased that Tony Bennet and KD Lang album, Bjork’s Debut, and three Costes albums, which are also on promotion. $3 off each title from that excellent series by Stephane Pompougnac. Hooray!
I also picked up a new album mixed by him, for Saks Fifth Avenue.
And it’s time to get ready for my jazz piano lesson…
[Update: New drummer has been found. We’ll see how it goes. 2 months to the concert!!] After the last incident with a runaway drummer, you’d think my jazz band the Moon Jumpers would have got going again. We found a good, new drummer, had a decent rehearsal in January… then we broke for Chinese New…
Before I [switched to jazz piano](http://vantan.org/archives/2006/10/the_conceptualj.php), I was a classical pianist. My mother found me at the Yamaha organ, playing a song by ear. She said I was just 2 years old; I thought I was closer to 4 as I had to be big enough to climb up the seat. Whatever the case, my…
I’m currently in 3 different music groups. My still-nameless jazz band, for which I haven’t had the strength nor patience to score Dave Brubeck’s Blue Ronda a la Turka which is due for our practice session on Friday. Concert’s in June, not very prepared for it. Company choir. Just wrote 2 songsheets for Amigos Para…
I picked up a few good CDs today: Café de Flore – Rendez-vous à Saint-Germain des Près. (mostly French, jazz); the latest Silje Nergaard album, Nightwatch (Norwegian, jazz), Craig David’s Slicker Than Your Average (‘what’s your flava? tell me what’s your flava’, nuff said); and a tribute to Bill Evans. [Note: From this post onwards,…
The kd lang concert was good, as expected. Actually, she sounded better here in the Esplanade than in her ‘Live by Request’ album! K and I had a most hurried dinner, and got to our seats in the nick of time. The band and orchestra behind them were already seated. When kd lang made her…
… that’s most likely the name of my new jazz band. Considering that we have little else in common save for the fact that each member comes from a different Anglican Church in Singapore. The drummer’s from St John’s-St Margaret’s, the bassist is from St James’, the second keyboardist is from St Andrew’s and yours…
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i like that album by tony bennett and kd lang… she has a great voice. and bjork is a legend!
🙂 I’m trying to finish listening to everything by tonight! Can’t say I didn’t try to boost the Singapore economy.
I first heard about Stephane Pompougnac on my way to live in Italy in Fall 2000. I was on Air France and they had a fun in-flight magazine (I think I still have that issue) which introduced a bunch of chill-out albums. So when I got to Florence, I headed to a CD store and picked up Nu Cool (think it was called that), but failed to get the Stephane Pompougnac one the article mentioned.