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Pat Metheny

The following is Pat Metheny’s rant on Kenny G. The rant get’s surprisingly nasty when Pat discovered that Kenny G had overdubbed his playing on a classic Louis Armstrong track entitled ‘What A Wonderful World’. Whilst I have a certain sympathy with Pat’s view, and I would like to emphasise that I am no [...]

Jazz legend Johnny Dankworth

Sir John Dankworth, a mainstay of the British jazz scene for over 60 years, has died. [...]

The Gig

The Gig

Unceremoniously dumped by an English harridan (I’m being kind), completely and utterly broken/depressed/down-trodden, and that’s just her, imagine how I felt, I decided to throw caution to the wind and mingle with some ‘local’ musicians. I ended up playing with a couple of guys who I actually respected; including the late Fred [...]

Let Me Entertain You! Higgs on Myspace

Let Me Entertain You part II Category: Music

Let Me Entertain You! part II (follow-up to a recent bulletin on Myspace)

To be honest I half expected to lose enormous numbers of friends in my self induced mass rapper-cull frenzy bulletin but to my delight and surprise most people seem to agree with the [...]

Let Me Entertain You! Higgs on the Brit Awards

Let Me Entertain You!

part one

Oh dear! I seem to have incurred rapper-wroth. I hope I’m not going to be shot! I therefore apologise if my message was in any way misunderstood.

Apparently I have a thing or two to learn about the subject of music and production! [...]

Music is ALIVE!! Or is it?

Roger Daltrey said that “CDs have destroyed the music business and that vinyl sounds better”. After hearing Roger say this on television I got to thinking that although there are clearly other factors that deserve consideration in respect of the affect CDs have had on the music industry, maybe he’s got a point.

I [...]