Maynard Ferguson (78)
I heard of his death on the news tonight. He had significance to Montreal, as he was also a native.
I bought a CD of his songs years ago, This is Jazz 16. I only saw the numeral much later; at first I thought this was one performer who thought too much of themselves. [...]
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Canadian Idol Results Show for August 22nd 2006
My kid is gone!
Steffi as a low vote getter I’ve grown accustomed to… but when Eva Avila was the other one, I figured the writing was on the wall. Chad was safe again, ensuring him of being this year’s Jacob Greely (on long past where his talent should [...]
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Canadian Idol Performance Show, August 21, 2006
I didn’t always agree with the judges: I can’t stand Chad Doucette’s voice! To my ear he has too much vibrato and sounds warbly. To me he lacks good technique – what they call uniqueness of his voice.
I was also a bit concerned with my ‘kid’ Steffi D. A [...]
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Finally!
I just succeeded in posting my site archives. After several weeks not able to show more than 6 years of posts, folks can read them.
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Canadian Idol results show of August 15 2006
Yup, I was completely off on my guesses!
Tyler was safe. Chad was safe. The bottom 3…
My ‘kid’ was in the bottom 3 – again. I keep steeling myself to the idea of her being eliminated soon. The other two (Craig Sharpe and Ashley Coulter)… these were the two [...]
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Canadian Idol performance show, August 14, 2006
There were some surprises for me when the competitors went unplugged. Much as I initially guessed Chad Doucette would perform badly, he was actually pretty good here. Mind you, good all of a sudden often means peril on results night.
As always I thought Steffi D was adorable here, but [...]
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Canadian Idol Double Post
My webhost was down for two days, so I have to cover a lot of ground in one shot:
Performance Show of August 7th 2006
Featuring classic rock was a show I liked a lot. Supertramp’s Roger Hodson didn’t really wow me since I’m not really a fan of that band. Dennis DeYoung on [...]
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The One no more!
I suspected something when there was no show last night, so I visited the website. According to the site:
There are no plans for additional episodes. Thanks to all who participated in and supported The One!
I feel bad for the competitors, and I hope the really talented ones like Aaron and Scotty get [...]
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Canadian Idol – Results Show, August 1st 2006
I would have posted this yesterday, but a thunderstorm and power failure kept me from it.
Before anything, I have to say how great it was to hear Cindy Lauper perform. I was a teen in the 1980s… she’s one of my music icons! I have to say: for [...]
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Canadian Idol – 80s Show performances – July 31st 2006
Overall, most of the 8 remaining performers really stepped up for this show. To my ear however some still didn’t sound as good as the judges thought.
Rob Masters didn’t really sound so good to me, and I suspect he’ll be at least in the Bottom Three [...]
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