lovin these fluid laughing horn lines of Michel's :D

This is the 10th tune coming from my 13 song suite called ''Celebrating life'' that I composed and interpreted by the last 4 months of 2012. As you know, I am reposting all these songs (only 3 left :) with a new guest collaborator and rename the suite ''Celebrating life with friends'' 

For this posting, I have two wonderful collaborators: Jamie Rhind and Michael Orzek and also known as Land of Orz . They are two brilliant musicians! Michael is a polyvalent guitarist which is very performant in the blues/rock/funk musical environment. Jamie is a superb Funk/blues/Jazz/Fusion keyboard player. I call him the funky man! :-))) As you might notice he is a very active collaborator on SC

Both have performed fantastic solos but I would like you to take a moment to focus on their rhythm section performance. You will see that they are in fusion with Band In A Box Basses and drums (I used three different basses and three different drums for this track! eheh!!!). Each of them is playing in sync with each other or playing in between each other!

Oh! Before I forgot, this is the first time that I organized a disorganized ending! So imagine a band which is playing this song very tight (which it is true in this song) then the drummer miss the ending break and suddenly all the musicians try one after the other to end the song (first the Michael, and the bassist) than the horns try to take the lead with a good ending but the pianist put his own ending with a weird chord… All that organized in purpose by me! :-)))

Here is the story behind this tune: 

Oxy is not the name of the bear!:-) It is the three first letter of one of the chemo medication called oxyloplatine (not a good word for a title). This medication had two very bad side effect: first, I could not approach any cold environment (I was not allowed to go in the fridge without mittens) or eat cold food and beverage ( bye bye White wine, Rosé, milk and Ice cream and so on… in July) 

But the worst side effect (especially for a clarinetist) was that I could not breathe properly! I was always out of breath, so much that my oncologist told me after examination (scan), I was developing a chemical pneumonia and if I do not stop this medication I could die! So I did not hesitate  and it was BYE BYE OXY with the result of BYE BYE BLUES! :-))) this is why my sonority a bit shaky on this original recording ;-)

 I hope you enjoy this song as much I did while doing this collaboration

You can visit Micheal’s cloud at @lando-orz and Jamie’s cloud @jamie-rhind for great music


Bye Bye Oxy , Bye Bye Blues - Celebrating life with friends - feat Michael Orzek and Jamie Rhind

In 2012, I was struck by a colon cancer and to overcome my feelings of vulnerability during my chemo treatments which ended last January 3, 2013, I composed a musical suite called Celebrating life that contains 13 pieces (one for each of the 12 treatments plus a virtual encore  :-) ) . In february 7, after a series of tests, my doctor declare me a cancer survival l!!

But you know, I had a life before :-)  So,  I would like to introduce myself briefly!

I started to play clarinet at 12 years old  (now I am 60). After being a self learner for 5 years, I studied clarinet at the Montreal Conservatory from 1970 to 73 (classical music was not for me). Then I started my jazz career  from 1974 to 1984. During that period of time, I produce 3 records (they were called LP at the time :-)  ). The peak of my jazz musician career was to win the Montreal International Jazz Festival contest 1984. Then … nothing … I stopped to play clarinet for 20 years… why? Too long to explain … I restarted to play clarinet in 2004… I am glad I did so. Now, I am a part time musicians playing just to enjoy it. I have started to do collaborations with some of the Soundcloud community member and I enjoyed very much the experience! Looking forward to do more colabs in a near future!

See you

Michel Martineau

En 2012, j'ai été atteint par un cancer du colon et pour vaincre mon sentiment de vulnérabilité pendant mes traitements de chimio qui ont terminés 3 janvier 2013, j'ai composé cette suite musicale de 13 pièces musicales (une pour chacun des 12 traitements plus un rappel virtuel). Le 7 février 2013, suite à une série de test, mon médecin déclara que tout était revenu à la normale pour moi

Comme vous le savez, j’ai eu une autre vie avant :-). Alors, j’aimerais me présenter brièvement :

 J'ai commencé à jouer la clarinette à l'âge de 12 ans (maintenant je viens d’avoir 60 ans ). Après avoir été musicien autodidacte pendant 5 ans, je suis allé étudier la clarinette au Conservatoire de Montréal de 1970 à 73 (musique classique n'était pas pour moi). Puis j'ai commencé ma carrière de jazz au Canada de 1974 à 1984. Au cours de cette période de temps, j'ai enregistré 3 disques (ils étaient appelés LP à l’époque). Le point culminant de ma carrière de musicien de jazz a été de remporter le concours du Festival International de Jazz de Montréal  1983. 
Et après ... rien ... Je me suis arrêté de jouer la clarinette pendant 20 ans ... pourquoi? Trop long à expliquer ... Je recommençai à jouer la clarinette en 2004 ... Je suis très contant d’avoir recommencé. Maintenant, je suis un musicien à temps partiel qui jouent juste pour le plaisir de jouer. J'ai commencé à faire des collaborations avec  des membres de la communauté Soundcloud et j'ai beaucoup apprécié l'expérience! Au plaisir de faire plusieurs collaborations  dans un futur rapproché!

Salut bien

Michel Martineau



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