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This blog explores the intersection between performance, mindfulness, and music, with a particular focus on the art and spirit of Gypsy Jazz. It’s a space dedicated to understanding how focus, awareness, and creativity enhance both artistic expression and personal growth.
Gypsy Jazz Interviews
Raphael Fays Interview
Raphael Fays is one of the few successful musicians with the ability to play Flamenco and Gypsy Jazz at a world-class level. Here is a true gentleman, devoted to the masters who preceded him, and a heartfelt human being. Thank you for your words, Raphael! 1 – What has…
Romain Vuillemin Interview
Guitarist, composer, bandleader, and singer Romain Vuillemin is one of the most versatile and busy Gypsy Jazz musicians around. In this interview, we get a chance to know him and his projects from the musician’s point of view and, most of all, from his human side who…
Remi Harris Interview
I must confess I found Remi Harris music almost by chance. Zapping through YouTube, I’ve found this amazing version of one of my favorite standards – “There Will Never Be Another You” – where he plays a Carolan Guitar. He’s musical good taste is exquisite, and his…
Andreas Oberg Interview
When we think about musical virtuosity amongst guitarists, the name Andreas Oberg immediately comes to mind. The Swedish is one of the most balanced and versatile musicians, ranging from super blazing speed runs to soft melodic passages along the instrument, and Gypsy…
Denis Chang Interview
Denis Chang is one of the dearest contemporary Gypsy Jazz musicians. He’s devotion to the music and astonishing work ethic built a reputation amongst the greatest. He’s been working on stage with some of the most prestigious Gypsy Jazz musicians, and his work extends…
Adrien Marco Interview
Adrien Marco is one of the new wave Gypsy Jazz talented musicians around, and he is currently crowdfunding his second studio album. He’s a very humorous, cheerful, and delightful human being who is playing Django’s music and adding original tunes to his repertoire….
Jazz Articles
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Maximizing Perfomance
The Need To Be Perfect
Is the need to be perfect (or perform perfectly) the most polished way of showing (or disguising) solicitude, insecurity or the impostor syndrome? The topic always reminds me one of my favourite movies of all time and the winning Oscar laureate Natalie Portman for her…
How To Disengage From Work: Addressing Worries Properly
Practicing an instrument and performing live events is what the musician is doing for a living. We can call it work, right? Training, practice session, gig, if you will! 😉 Worrying is a major obstruction to peak performance. Feeling concern harms resting,…
Balancing Work And Rest
Anders Ericsson’s research on the 10.000 hour rule to achieve mastery has become a corner-stone to every world-class achiever’s frame of mind. 10.000 hours of deliberate practice equals 10 years of hard work. There upon one should ask: how should…
Top Performers Strategies: 5 – Strengthening Confidence
Confidence is one of the winners’ mental characteristics which plays bigger part in one’s development and growth. Confidence is like the Sun which all other character traits circle around. The way you move, the way you talk to yourself, the way you face adversity, the…
Top Performers Strategies: 4 – Mental resilience And How To Never Give Up
Though learning and applying the best practice regimes there will never going to be a guaranteed 100% bulletproof certainty that it will result in achieving our highest goals. Olympic champions are a good example of it. To qualify for the competition they have to…
Top Performers Strategies: 3 – Strengthening Weak Skills
Strengthening weak skills is the 3rd strategy top performers use to stay ahead in their game. You may realize a décalage between the amount of attention you give to different working areas or skills. You may realize you concentrate more energy working on…
Mindfulness
VII – Embrace The Present
The past is water under the bridge. The future is a distant sun on the horizon of your imagination. The most important moment is now. Learn to live in the Present and savor it fully. Being engaged in a pursuit that truly challenges you is the surest route to…
VI – A Life Of Service
Ask yourself a question: What good deeds have you performed through the course of this day? The quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution. There’s an Ancient Chinese Proverb that goes like this: “A little bit of fragrance always clings to…
V – Time as your most precious commodity
Remind yourself of your own mortality and the importance of living full, productive days while advancing your purposes. Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return. Time mastery is life mastery! Learn to use time…
IV – The Power Of Discipline
The virtue of self-discipline is like a wire cable. It consists of many thin, tiny wires placed one on top of the other. Alone, each one is flimsy and weak. But, together, their sum is much greater than their constituent parts and the cable becomes tougher than iron….
III – Self-Leadership = Self-Improvement
Success on the outside begins with success on the inside. If you really want to improve your outer world (health, relationships, finances, etc.) you must first improve your inner world. The most effective way to do this is through the practice of continuous…
II – The purpose of life is a life of purpose
He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the way to inner peace and outer fulfillment. “You have now learned that the mind is like a fertile garden and for it to flourish, you must nurture it daily. Never let…