Jazzlife - because all of life is jazz

Right now Bird, Clint Eastwood’s film about the life of Charlie Parker is airing on CoolTV.

I never saw the film before, so I hadn’t realized what a tortured soul Parker was.

Even though it’s now a day late for X-Mas, I want to wish my readers a great New Year’s Eve, and a great holiday time before that.

I saw a jazz link in an episode of Degrassi: the Next Generation this past week: one character gave another her late grandfather’s guitar as a holiday gift… she said he used it when he played with Django Reinhardt.

I’ve heard Django mentioned a lot of late. I have to track his music down now; I’m very curious.

Suzy Arioli is really getting a big promotional push here: not only do we get frequent ads on TV for her new album, she was also featured on the entertainment feature on CTV News last night.

Today I heard two of my favorite things: Couleur Jazz had a mention of NaNoWriMo!

Finally!

Couleur Jazz officially launched as a full radio station yesterday evening, but I first heard it early this morning when my alarm went off.

The station is French, but that’s not a problem for me; I’m trilingual.

A correction: my Jazz Radio station is called Couleur Jazz, not Cool. The word is French for “color”.

TV Stations in my neck of the woods are heavily promoting the latest release from the Susan Arioli band.

She’s not Holly Cole, but who else is? She’s still quite good.

Finally, the official launch of CKLX (or COOL FM) will be tomorrow, Tuesday.

Considering they’d advertised the intended launch at the Jazz festival this past summer as some time in September, they’re running very late!

Friday night on CoolTV was the first time I’ve ever seen Bela Fleck and the Flecktones perform. That was interesting - especially seeing that Bela was a guy! (I should have known that… so is Bela Lugosi.)

I’m still trying to figure out if Bela’s guitar actually incorporates several instruments, or if it just looks cool.