My time is spent listening to some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time and trying to emulate their styles of playing. Below are a few pictures I scanned from the book "Black Beauty, White Heat".
Backwards Glance
I was born in Victoria during September of 1981. In 1986, my family (my father, mother and sister) went to Perth, Western Australia, Australia on exchange for a year. That was great! In 1991, we camped in the Rocky Mountains in our 1971 Volkswagon Westfalia van. The following year we travelled south through Idaho to Nevada, across to California and back to Victoria via Oregon and Washington. We then bought a 1991 van and, this summer, drove all the way across Canada and down through the United States. That was an incredible trip.
In band, I started out on alto sax (grade 6) which I played for two years. Once I got to Lansdowne, I switched to bari sax. It was just this year that I started tenor. So far, it's my favourite out of all the saxes. My first gig was a graduation party for my mother's students from Camosun College.
Forwards Glance
Next year I'll be joining our school's yearbook staff and taking embarassing pictures of everyone in our school. Further down the road I'll be an internationally famous jazz musician. I'll make jazz as big as rock 'n' roll was in the '60s and I'll become the equivalent to the Beatles. By then, I'll have gotten my collection of saxophones, including a Selmer Paris Mark VI tenor and a bass sax. I'll be living in New York and playing at Birdland nightly.
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