Jenny Scott - Jazz - Singer/Songwriter - Blog

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Sat, 18 May 2013 13:36:25 -0400

Welcome To The Official Site Of Jazz Singer/Songwriter Jenny Scott

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:43:00 -0400

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it”
via Dangerous Minds

Once I finished reading “The Grapes Of Wrath” by Steinbeck, I will read Patti’s Autobiography “Just Kids”. She’s great!

"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:57:22 -0400

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

A love song…?

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:02:00 -0400

A love song…?

Nothing I can’t do ;)

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:22:16 -0400

Nothing I can’t do ;)

Living the dream - Last Friday in Kaiserslautern (GER).Photos by...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:26:41 -0400

Living the dream - Last Friday in Kaiserslautern (GER).

Photos by Frank Lorscheid

This is my first attempt in arranging a second guitar. If you...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:52:23 -0400

This is my first attempt in arranging a second guitar. If you like you can download ‘May Spring Come Hit Me Soon’ for free over at NoiseTrade. com

http://www.noisetrade.com/jennyscottmusic/may-spring-come-hit-me-soon

Music & Lyrics by Jenny Scott
Cover picture by Frank Lorscheid

I love exploring new ways. So here is a rough draft of a song...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:17:23 -0400

I love exploring new ways. So here is a rough draft of a song idea in 3/4 meter.
Will see where it takes me…

xo, Jen

dontfrightenthelions: okay this just made me significantly...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:17:00 -0400

dontfrightenthelions:

okay this just made me significantly happier

This is just perfect!

Creativity lies within trusting your experience and keep...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:23:10 -0400

Creativity lies within trusting your experience and keep exploring the unknown.

Some pics from my last show by Frank Lorscheid.

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:00:49 -0500

Some pics from my last show by Frank Lorscheid.

Photo

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:25:38 -0500

More Dates/ Mehr Termine

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:13:00 -0500

More Dates/ Mehr Termine

explore-blog: Betty Friedan, reconstructionist. How funny...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:19:59 -0500

explore-blog:

Betty Friedan, reconstructionist.

How funny fate can be, this post by explore-blog fits my mood perfectly so I had to reblog it with mine.

Writing this I am sitting on my bed feeling down. For what reason you may ask. Well, I don’t know. The day started just perfect. The sun was shining; I slept great and felt refreshed; a lot of things to do. As almost every day I made a list with things I wanted to get done today so I could catch up with work, be productive. The most important points I checked, therefore no reason at all to feel the way I feel.
But pheww. Feelings are so random, so weird sometimes. I seem to have a special problem with feelings so it seems. Being zodiac sign cancer I often get to hear it must be that. But I also seem to be what is called “HSP”, a “Highly sensitive person”. It ain’t a disease you could cure with medicine. It is a condition. Something you are, and you have to live with it. That’s what I’ve been trying for the last 24 years. It ain’t always easy neither for me nor my family and friends as they and I often don’t really understand why I feel a certain way and therefore react to that effect. May it be positive or negative.

Here is where music most of the time is able to help me. I can calm down, take a break from everything and be whatever and whomever I am; with all those funny and odd moods, not judging myself, not being judged. It’s a relief. Well, sometimes. When it comes to me being a musician and songwriter I am of course judging myself, trying to figure out who I am. What do I want? Where do I want to go? I don’t really know yet, we will see. All that I know is, that I want to be the best I can be at any moment in time. That’s it.

SO… Why am I writing this in my blog for you? Again, I don’t know. I am really not someone to talk about their inner feelings a lot other than in my songs. So starting this post I didn’t know that it would lead me to this point where it is all making sense to me and if you are still reading, it might also will to you ;)

I know I must have said that a thousand times, but:
New music is on its way! All I need is more time to figure this thing out, and with ‘this thing’ I am referring to myself. I am in a permanent development so it seems to me. Which is really cool and I enjoy it. And though there of course are those moments where I feel like I am stuck it is all happening in such a fast pace that it is hard to catch up with it leading me to feeling quite overwhelmed a lot of times.

I am on a good way finally reaching that point where I seem to know what it is that I want you to hear from me next, and in which way I want you to hear it; but as long as I am not a 100% sure about it, I don’t feel like putting anything out there. Once it is done: It shall be ours together.

Thanks for sticking with me,
Jen

well, mostly…

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:50:40 -0500

well, mostly…

Dear John,

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:01:00 -0500

Writing this I know, you won’t be able to read what I wish I would have written to you much earlier.
I didn’t know about your situation, the hard time you and your family went through for years and years. But I wasn’t in that position of knowing so intimate things about you. I wasn’t a part of your family or your dear friends whom I sending all my good thoughts and sympathy to.

I was one of them many songwriters who got the chance to show you what we all really care about and I got to learn from you and your knowledge and experience of being in the business for so many years.

You knew how to encourage me. You gave me the confidence I needed to get better and always keep pushing the boundaries in my songwriting. That one time I got to chit chat with you via Skype after all those mail correspondences has been so powerful to me I hardly can describe. You just had gotten a surgery and still took your time to spend it with me and help me out, letting me know your thoughts and giving me advice. Your smile and laughter felt so strong, even though you still felt dizzy and tired. And I can only imagine how warm and touching it must have been to be around you not parted by thousands of miles and the ocean only connected by a camera and the internet.

John, I am so grateful for everything you did and I am still only realizing that I won’t be able to contact you anymore. And I wish I would have when I still had the chance but it wasn’t meant to be and that is okay. Knowing what you thought about me makes me proud and happy. And that is the biggest gift I could have asked for.

You will be missed.

Yours, Jenny

"Not a day goes by when I don’t feel challenged and distracted by an old pattern, another test, a..."

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:30:20 -0500

“Not a day goes by when I don’t feel challenged and distracted by an old pattern, another test, a false path that holds temptation. I don’t think it’s a simple question of finding our sacred purpose and owning it every moment. I think we are always pulled off of it and have to remember. Forget, remember, forget, remember. It’s just that the remembering gets easier over time.”

- Jeff Brown (via chrisayer)

My Jar Of Great Moments 2013

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:16:42 -0500

Happy New Year Everybody!

Let it be filled with health for you and your loved ones, success in whatever you want to achieve and of course: MANY, MANY GREAT MOMENTS!!!

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled over following post on my Tumblr dashboard:

‘What a great idea’ I thought and so I got myself a jar and filled it with my first good moment of the year 2013. I am so excited to fill it with more and more good moments I can look back on and maybe by the end of the year, we can share our greatest moments with each other.
But living in the moment the end of 2013 is luckily still soooooooooooooooo far away that all I want to say is:

If you are a bit like me, and tend to forget about the beauty and great things that happen to each and every single one of us every now and then, get yourself an empty jar and fill it with all your great moments you can look back on as soon as the year is over.

Or when you’re having some down moments, when you feel like the whole world is against you, nobody seems to care and you need some cheering up - Don’t wait for New Years Eve. Simply open the jar and take a look at all those great moments you already experienced that made you feel so happy and lucky you put them in there.

Again, Happy New Year and MANY, MANY GREAT MOMENTS!!!
xo, Jen

explore-blog: Landfill Harmonic – in a small Paraguay town, a...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:26:32 -0500

explore-blog:

Landfill Harmonic – in a small Paraguay town, a youth chamber orchestra plays Beethoven and The Beatles on instruments made out of scraps from the local landfill.

See more music made with unusual objects here.

(↬ Open Culture)

When trash becomes music. If this ain’t wonderful, well…. then I don’t know!

Meklit Hadero and Quinn DeVeaux are such gifted singers and...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:52:03 -0500

Meklit Hadero and Quinn DeVeaux are such gifted singers and musicians. Their lovely Arcade Fire cover of was the first song I ever heard of them and made me fall in love with music even more.

Jenny Scott - Jazz - Singer/Songwriter - Blog

Welcome Home!

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make...

"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the..."

A love song…?

Nothing I can’t do ;)

Living the dream - Last Friday in Kaiserslautern (GER).Photos by...

This is my first attempt in arranging a second guitar. If you...

I love exploring new ways. So here is a rough draft of a song...

I love exploring new ways. So here is a rough draft of a song idea in 3/4 meter. Will see where it takes me… xo, Jen

dontfrightenthelions: okay this just made me significantly...

Creativity lies within trusting your experience and keep...

Some pics from my last show by Frank Lorscheid.

Photo

More Dates/ Mehr Termine

explore-blog: Betty Friedan, reconstructionist. How funny...

well, mostly…

Dear John,

"Not a day goes by when I don’t feel challenged and distracted by an old pattern, another test, a..."

My Jar Of Great Moments 2013

explore-blog: Landfill Harmonic – in a small Paraguay town, a...

Meklit Hadero and Quinn DeVeaux are such gifted singers and...

I love exploring new ways. So here is a rough draft of a song idea in 3/4 meter.
Will see where it takes me…

xo, Jen