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"Only sick music makes money today."
- Friedrich Nietzche, in 1888

I wouldn't say I agree with this 100%, but it does make think of another quote I read recently:

"I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to."
- Elvis Presley

The Blue Morris 6's first album, Swing Me, Blues Me, is now available on iTunes Canada! For just .99 cents a song or $9.99 for all 14 songs you can download our album to your computer, burn it to CD, or transfer it to your iPod.

Swing Me, Blues Me (Canada)

If you're not an iTunes fan, you can always order the CD from our online store and we can ship it to you right quick.

Other countries

We cannot currently offer the album on iTunes for countries other than Canada, sorry. We do not have the sufficient rights to some of the songs to do that. But you can still purchase the CD from our online store and we can ship it to you right quick.

Jason Moran tells a story

NPR featured a track from Jason Moran's latest CD Artist In Residence which takes this idea one step further. Moran takes recorded conversations and improvises on the piano musical lines that are inspired by the tones and rhythms in the recorded speech.

Oscar Peterson (public domain)

One of Canada's most famous jazz musicians, Oscar Peterson, says he is fed up with "bigots" who drive by his Mississauga home shouting racial slurs.

This story appeared on the front page of the Vancouver Sun today. I am glad they covered it on the front page and shocked this is happening. Here's a guy who has recorded more than 200 albums, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and even had a school named after him, yet he and his family are heckled at with racist remarks from people driving by! And all this in Canada -- a country that prides itself on tolerance!