Canadian Idol results show – August 28, 2007

This was the least unpredictable results: Dwight D’eon was eliminated.
I’m not heartbroken about this. Dwight just wasn’t really talented enough (he is still better than I am, mind you). He’s a great guitarist, and is better suited to rock.
Now, Jaydee has to go next week!

Canadian Idol Performance Show, August 27 2007

The best line of the show was in Zach’s critique of JayDee Bixby’s first song: he was in the pocket of a pair of jeans back at home.
That was an appropriate comment. Being born  about 40 years past these songs, he had no frame of reference, and without a popular country song to sing (wrong [...]

Canadian Idol results show – August 21, 2007

Jill won’t like this, but Carlie was safe this week. Unfortunately so was Jay(Sanjaiya)Dee.
Matt Rapley was eliminated this week. I expected him to be cut before the end, but his performance was still better that fellow bottom-runger Dwight D’eon.

Canadian Idol Performance Show, August 20 2007

We’re down to the Final Five, so they got to perform full songs, instead of cut to a minute.
I can’t overstate enough how JayDee Bigsby really stank up the stage. Jake Gold said how the performances this show were to prove they could add something to the songs instead of to imitate – then [...]

Max Roach dead at 83

Jazz legend dies after a long illness

Canadian Idol – Results Show, August 14, 2007

Jaydee Bigsby is our Canadian answer to Sanjiya.
He mostly stays on tune, which is a difference, but he doesn’t really have the talent needed, and he’s in the Top 5 now, undeserved.
Case in point: both he and Tara Oram weren’t terribly good Monday – but she made the bottom 3, and he did NOT. Worse: [...]

On the Lot thoughts

(I know: another non-jazz themed show. I’m a graduate of film school, so it interests me.)
I actually saw this last  Wednesday on FOX, but I didn’t want to spoil it for any of my fellow Canadians who see it Sunday on CTV.
Zack, considered by many as the frontrunner was eliminated.
The significant thing about it: the [...]

Canadian Idol – Results Show – August 7, 2007

It took me a few days to post this for a simple reason: I was completely shocked by the results.
I agree with Jake Gold: the Bottom Three should have been the Top Three of the week: Carly Rae Jepsen, Greg Neufeld and Brian Melo were the three on the block. I’ve made no bones about [...]