In no particular order: Jorge Luis Borges, M.C. Escher, Ahmad Jamal, Stanley Kubrick, Xu Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Oscar Peterson, Akira Kurosawa, Joseph Heller, Cannonball Adderley, Billy Wilder, OULIPO, Charles Mingus, Phaidon, Hoshi Shinichi, Alfred Hitchcock, Miles Davis, the Coen Brothers, Erik Satie, Duke Ellington, Norman McLaren, Shel Silverstein, Thelonious Monk, Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Jan Svankmayer, Bud Powell, Moebius, Jack Nicholson, A Tribe Called Quest, Katsushita Hokusai, René Magritte, Kurt Vonnegut, Salvador Dali, Phineas Newborn, Etta James, Walter Murch, Studio Ghibli, Oliver Sacks, Sarah Vaughan, Albert Camus, Bird, James Brown, Rubén González, Wayne Shorter, Douglas Hofstadter, J-Live, Osamu Tezuka, Antoni Gaudí, François Truffaut, The Meters, Jose Saramago, Toshiro Mifune, Roy Haynes, Francis Wolff, Ella Fitzgerald, Tibor Kalman & Colors Magazine, Robert Deniro, Julio Cortazar, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Arabian Nights, Charles Burns, Brad Mehldau, Haruki Murakami, The Roots, Elmer Bernstein, Bill Evans, Shortround from Indiana Jones, Robert Capa, Lewis Carroll, Blackalicious, Dinah Washington, Daniel Clowes, Chuang-Tzu, Ridley Scott, McSweeney's, Ayado Chie, Abdul Mati Klarwein, Matsuo Basho, Raymond Queneau, Philip Jones Griffiths, Hoagy Carmichael, Scott Kim, Bruce Lee, Max Cannon, Abelardo Morell, Monty Python, Takashi Murakami & Superflat, Nicholson Baker, J.S. Bach, Fred Astaire, Herbie Nichols, Gary Larson, Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano, Stevie Wonder, Pannonica, Sheila Jordan, Andy Warhol, David Cronenberg, Marlon Brando, Milt Jacskon, Lyrics Born, Bogey, Charles Schultz, Mongo Santamaria, Federico Fellini, Jean Seberg, Herbie Nichols, Paul Bowles, Frank Zappa, Wim Wenders, Paolo Soleri, Man Ray, James Nachtwey, Santu Mofokeng, Toots and the Maytals, Abdullah Ibrahim, Zap Mama, Thomas Wharton, Saul Bass, Fred Herzog, Ray Brown, Hugh Masekela, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Herman Leonard ...ad nauseum.
Hallo myspace robots. I am your local jazz piano, funky keyboards and Cambodian mouth-harp specialist. A veteran musician with over 10 years of playing experience under my belt, I have been lucky enough to share the stage with such artists as Leisure Lab, the Ten Souljers, Jessi Nicholson, the Sam Davidson Quartet, Hibino Shinichi, Takahashi Hideshi, Watanabe Akihito, Namnai, and Groove Therapy in venues both in Canada and as far away as Japan and Bangladesh. I also hosted a weekly jazz-themed radio show for 4 years on CJSF Radio 90.1 FM called Parker's Mood, which featured eclectic selections from swing to bop to free jazz to modern and local offerings. The show was put on hold during my stint with Bushradio in South Africa, where I worked as an intern in the news and music deparment. Tracks and pics will be updated shortly, so check back soon. In the meantime enjoy the promo for my radio show, and a stereo reduction of a piece I wrote for 9 toy pianos (see blog for details). I've also added a short radio piece about youth and music in Capetown that aired on Bushradio 89.5 FM in mid-January 2007.
As of late last year, Parker's Mood has flown the bird to Montreal, where, after some hoop-jumping, it has re-emerged in the form of Jazz Euphorium and World Skip the Beat on CKUT radio 90.3 FM!!
I am continuing to expand my musical horizons through creative sound art and my participation in the Montreal-based Kalmunity Vibe Collective, purveyors of live & improvised organic jazz-funk-soul.
Turn the record over...!
http://jazzeuphorium.blogspot.com
My pants are always on fire! cant make it to the BBQ got a gig in port angles WA ...Im going to miss the BBQ...Ill be thinking of you ... and as for the hammy...you missed out big time...
My pants are not on fire. Jay Dee was one of the great musical minds of our time. Oh, but Georgia's pants are on fire... we didn't quite resurrect the ham.
hi. i got your corset did the other day, thanks. i didn't have time to read it until around 6am after coming home from a Block Party dj'd by none other than Questlove !
your card gave me a little chuckle before i turned off the light and settled down to sleep.
Jen had bailed on the block party even after buying the ticket! what a loser! bye for now SA er
