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Spear CEO Named Official Physical Therapist for Olympic Baseball Team
Are You Experiencing Pain in Your Hand and Wrist? Check Out Our Helpful Guide!
SPEAR Named The Nation's Top Physical Therapy Practice
Growth and Expansion: E 84th St Celebrates With A Ceremonial Ribbon Cutting
Optimism in Midtown: Our Grand Central – 3rd Ave Clinic is Now Open!
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Category: Back to Life
The UWS Side Just Got Better: Introducing Spear's Newest Clinic on 92nd St!
Posted in: Back to Life, Community, Education, Events, Fun & Sundry, Inspiration, Leadership, Let's keep moving, New Locations, New York, NY, Our Therapists, Success Stories, Team SPEAR-IT
Spear is expanding further into the Upper West Side: introducing our newest clinic on 92nd St!
Located at 2465 Broadway between 91st and 92nd Street, our newest location is now open and accepting appointments, providing a new opportunity to reach even more New Yorkers! Spear's Upper West Side – 92nd St clinic was created out of a need to serve our community. This brand new location allows us to allocate more appointments and reach more patients in need of the best therapy around!
Spacious and modern, this new space has everything our clinicians need to continue providing the best physical and occupational therapy in town. With many shopping and restaurant options nearby, including Trader Joe's, Bed, Bath and Beyond, and The Mermaid In, and just a short walk from Central Park, it's a perfect addition to the neighborhood!
Alyssa Reyes, PT, DPT is the Clinical Director of Spear's Upper West Side – W 92nd St clinic. Her passion for the profession stems from receiving an overwhelmingly positive experience in rehab for a rotator cuff injury in high school. She has experience in outpatient sports and orthopedics, outpatient neurology and geriatrics, pediatrics, inpatient acute care, and inpatient acute rehabilitation settings. Alyssa's overall goal is to make a lasting impact on NYC's community by helping patients to regain function and increase their self-confidence.
UWS – 92nd St is now accepting appointment requests! You can do so right here online or by calling us at 646-829-2299!
Spear Opens Its First Clinic in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Posted in: Back to Life, Community, Events, Inspiration, Leadership, Let's keep moving, New Locations, New York, NY, Our Therapists, Success Stories, Team SPEAR-IT
We're excited to announce the opening of our newest clinic in Brooklyn — Williamsburg!
This brand new clinic marks Spear's 23rd location, and its third in Brooklyn! The first clinic in Williamsburg, the space was created with your comfort in mind. It features ample space, new machines, spacious treatment areas, and locker room changing areas. Conveniently located by the L and G trains, Williamsburg is a community rich in history that has become one of the trendiest residential areas in the city, boasting incredible coffee shops, restaurants, a Whole Foods, Apple store, Equinox, Alo Yoga, Warby Parker, and more!
Nicole Surach, PT, DPT, SFMA, is the Clinical Director of Spear Brooklyn – Williamsburg. Previously the Clinical Director of Spear's Brooklyn Heights –St. George Hotel clinic, she has helped to build a team of passionate clinicians and helped hundreds of New Yorkers to keep moving. Nicole is committed to her patient's success. She strives to not only have her patients make full recoveries but also to prevent future injuries.
Brooklyn — Williamsburg is now accepting appointment requests! You can do so right here online or by calling us at 646-829-2295!
(Back) On Broadway! —Spear's Times Square Clinic Celebrates the Return of Live Performance to the Stage
Posted in: Back to Life, Community, Dance, Events, Fun & Sundry, Inspiration, Leadership, Let's keep moving, New Locations, New York, Our Therapists, SPEAR in the media, Sports, Team SPEAR-IT
The lights of Times Square are no longer dimmed— Broadway is back! After a year-and-a-half long shutdown that saw the closing of New York City's famed Theatre District, the Spear team celebrated the return of Broadway, arts, and culture to the city, serendipitously coinciding with the grand opening launch of our Times Square – Center for Performing Arts clinic, with a grand night of emotional stories, celebratory hugs, epic performances, exciting productions, and of course, much love.
Situated right in the heart of Broadway, our Times Square clinic was born from a desire to provide a special space specifically for dancers and performers, an innovative idea brought forth by the location's Clinical Director, Ninia Agustin, PT, DPT, during her very beginnings at Spear.
Growing up performing and competing as a dancer, Ninia has held a long-time love for the art of movement, evolving into a passion for helping performing artists rehabilitate and treat their bodies. Ninia was clear on her vision: bridging the world of dance with the science of physical therapy, her two passions, to create a space that catered to the physical needs of performers. Today, that dream is alive and well.
Spear's Times Square clinic is a location created with the performer in mind. Our clinic works hand-in-hand with other like-minded organizations such as Mt. Sinai's Samuel J. Friedman Health Center, a medical care provider that is focused on the particular healthcare needs of the entertainment and performing arts community, and The Actors Fund, a national human services organization created to meet the needs of our entertainment community. Together, we've formed an amazing support group for artists.
When the pandemic closed the city, Broadway, and our Times Square clinic down in March of 2020, just weeks after our opening, it was an unexpected and difficult time for everyone. This clinic was thoughtfully planned to serve as the premier location for performing artists and creatives to receive the therapy treatment they need. The vision suddenly seemed shaky, and the team struggled to find their footing.
Last month, with Broadway re-opening, we were given an opportunity to celebrate our team and their dedication to the artists who were finally getting back on stage. To commemorate such a momentous return, we created a truly magical night to honor the return of the culture, love, excitement, and emotion that art awakens for us all. We gathered together to celebrate in style with live performances, most notably from Scott Sussman, Spear patient, former Broadway actor, and Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in Singing Voice Rehabilitation. He wowed us by performing "Something's Coming" from West Side Story and "Help is On the Way" by David Friedman, a beautiful track about maintaining faith through hard times, much like what we experienced right here in the city.
The return of Broadway marks a massive win for the performing arts community as a whole.
Over the last few weeks, our incredible Spear team members, with the addition of some special guests, joined together in creating our mini-documentary above. Serving much emotion and heart, it is our love letter to the city, an homage to the arts, culture, and performing arts of the city we adore so much.
The evening was a celebration, as well as a moment to reflect on the journey we've walked together. CEO and Co-founder Dan Rootenberg shared his deep appreciation for the dedication the team has. "Everybody is passionate about the arts, and that's what it's about," Dan shared. "If you love what you're doing and are passionate about what you're doing, you know it's sure to work."
Ninia also acknowledged the trials, tribulations, and triumphs the team faced together. Thanking her teammates by name, she graciously recognized the efforts of every single Spear member, from the Front Desk Care Coordinators to the Therapy Technicians and Physical Therapists, for turning a vision into reality. "Five years ago, I said I wanted to build a niche practice working with dancers," Ninia shared. "This is my background, this is my passion, and I would love to do it—and here we are." Today, the clinic sees all kinds of performers, from Broadway actors, to dancers, to musicians. The Times Square team, who are all performers, artists, musicians, and dancers themselves, are a group of truly passionate members dedicated to what they do. The closeness to the craft really allows them to connect more with our performing patients, creating a truly special bond.
With large red scissors in hand, Ninia stood with the rest of the team, standing tall in support, as they cut the ribbon to mark the "grand opening" of the clinic. The joy and elation in the room was electric. As Dan said: "the lights are back on Broadway, and it's very special." We cannot wait to continue living our vision, and keep New Yorkers moving.
Posted in: Back to Life, Basketball, Community, Education, Events, Fun & Sundry, Injuries, Inspiration, Leadership, New York, Our Therapists, Rewards, SPEAR in the media, Sports, Stretching, Success Stories
Summer is heating up: the world has got its eyes on the 2020 Olympic games starting this month. Our very own CEO and Co-founder, Dan Rootenberg, jetted off to Japan to continue his work with the Israel national baseball team as their official physical therapist!
Team Israel is up against some of the biggest players in the world, with a need to be physically ready to perform at optimal levels for the international sporting event. Holding a true passion for baseball, Dan is excited to be able to help rehab and guide the all-star players. "It's just about putting these professional athletes in the best position to be successful," he says of the importance of his role.
Dan has been involved with the team since 2012, during the World Baseball Classic qualifiers. He also offered his attention and rehabilitation skills at the 2017 World Baseball Classic in Seoul, South Korea, helping the players by providing strength and conditioning and physical therapy guidance. "I played in the Israel baseball league, a pro league in Israel in 2007. My first son, Jack, was just born. I went out there and the relationships that I established there, that's where a lot of this really came from. It started there during that league," Dan recalls of his time. "The manager of the team, Eric Holtz, was a good friend of mine. Nate Fish [Third Base Coach] was another guy—we all played together. Shlomo [Lipetz], who's a pitcher here, was a teammate of mine; Peter Kurz, who's the general manager— his son was a teammate of mine. There's a lot of personal connections here, and it's amazing to see how much the sport of baseball has grown."
Growing up playing baseball, Dan has maintained an elevated level of excitement, passion, and fervor for the sport. The love of the game has translated into more than just playing—he has also participated on the board of two little leagues and donates his time coaching and guiding inner-city children, coaching more than 200 kids in the past decade alone! He has collaborated with Pitch In For Baseball (PIFB), pledging a sizeable donation to the organization to purchase baseball and softball gear for underprivileged youth players.
SPEAR is always passionate about giving back to our community. Our teammates have amazing empathy, one of our core values, and are often looking for ways to contribute their knowledge where it is needed most. Our team is heavily involved with the youth community, particularly working with local little league baseball teams to offer free screenings to the youth players to ensure a smooth (and fun!) season. Partnering with local youth athletes is just one way we like to give back to the community. We even had our own teammates participate in the exhibition games: Tom Barcia, PT, DPT, ATC, and Clinical Director of our Midtown- W 44th St clinic, joined Dan during the team's exhibition games to get them properly warmed up and ready for some practice games.
SPEAR has been involved in the treatment of Team Israel players in the past as well. "We've treated a number of players in our SPEAR facilities; different physical therapists on the team have worked with a lot of these guys," Dan recalls. "It's nice to have that continuity because then they come here, I can talk to the therapist that treated them and then have a continuous program for them…it's helpful to be able to take whatever they've been doing in the clinics, pair it with what they have to do on the field and then help them here…really it's just about putting these professional athletes in the best position to be successful."
Team Israel is up against some big contenders this summer: the United States, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Mexico, and South Korea. Currently ranked 24th in the world and 7th in Europe, the team is the competition's endearing underdogs. The full roster consists of 12 pitchers, 3 catchers, 6 infielders, and 3 outfielders. The world's got their eye on second baseman Ian Kinsler, former MLB all-star, who played for 14 seasons for the Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padres. The Summer Olympics are bound to be a hot one! Team Israel's first match kicks off next Thursday, July 29th, against South Korea.
"Nobody expected us to be in the Olympics," Dan says. "The fact that we're there is pretty incredible in and of itself, and we've got a lot of a lot of high hopes about coming back with a medal."
We are so proud and honored to have Dan there representing the field of physical therapy and its vital importance in the competition and the overall health and safety of the athletes.
Here's a teaser of some awesome content we got on the pipeline, sure to be a home run:
SPEAR's Annual Summer Event Returns with SPEARFEST!
Posted in: Awards, Back to Life, Community, Education, Events, Fun & Sundry, Inspiration, Leadership, New York, Our Therapists, Rewards, Success Stories, Team SPEAR-IT
All smiles: SPEAR teammates are full of joy and SPEAR-IT!
SPEAR is known for top-notch physical and occupational therapy treatment, but we're also known for another value we're very proud of: our culture. Lovingly referred to as our "SPEAR-IT," this whimsical embodiment of our combined passion, energy, dedication, and unity is at the forefront of everything we do. That's why we celebrate our people every summer at our 'Picnic in the Park' event. This year we had some fun, endearingly naming our company retreat "SPEARFEST," and appropriately so, for it was a day filled with palpable comradery and love amongst all of our teammates!
An annual event, last Friday's companywide event differed from our picnics of the past. It was not just a fun day in the sun, nor just a day to host some friendly competitions. SPEARFEST this year marked our first collective gathering companywide—with the necessary cancellation of the event the year prior, and not having been together for over 19 months, this event was an opportunity to be together once again. 350 of our teammates gathered to celebrate just that: our collective synergy and the chance to be united again, despite the challenges we've all faced this past difficult year.
Together again, we celebrated our synergy, collective teamwork, and the opportunity to be a little closer to a state of normal. The event was created with our people in mind: a day to relax, kick back, and enjoy each other's company.
Leading up to the event, we held our well-known 'SPEAR-IT Week' across our social platforms. Consisting of different themed days, 'SPEAR-IT Week' is an opportunity for all of our clinics to build excitement for the big event. With 21 clinics sprinkled across our boroughs and into Westchester, it's not often we can have all our teammates together under one roof. With the cancellation of our All Hands Meeting (our companywide meeting created to celebrate our clinics' successes and discussion for continued growth), it was even more essential to build connection and engagement between our clinics and regions.
Human Pyramid by LIC – CityView
Penn Plaza on Twinning Thursday
Of course, we had to up the ante, too, by stirring in some friendly competition: each clinic had the chance to submit photos and videos with our Theme Day challenges to earn points towards the coveted SPEAR-IT Week Champion title! Clinics within each region uplifted one another and helped garner votes from family and friends via social media comments and likes in hopes of having their region crowned winner, to be announced at SPEARFEST! 'SPEAR-IT Week' was rockin', with our teammates creating incredibly synchronized choreographies, building human pyramids, filming insane music videos, and dressing in coordination. The fun could not be contained! (Pssst…if you missed our team's amazing submissions, check them out on our Instagram and Facebook pages!)
SPEAR-IT Week continued with a city-wide Scavenger Hunt (if you were in Manhattan, you might have encountered one of our own asking you some silly questions or capturing funny moments!), ending right at the start of our SPEARFEST event. Held at The Armory Foundation's indoor track & field center, the gigantic space was jam-packed with leisurely activities for everyone to enjoy. This event was created to be a fun and enjoyable day, to build comradery amongst our teammates, to celebrate our wins, and to relish in the sheer joy of being together again.
SPEAR Teammates having some Cornhole fun!
Duck and Hide in full effect!
There's nothing like a professional 'Simon Says' Champion to get the crowd excited!
It was also an opportunity to celebrate all the hard work our team has put in throughout the year. All together under one roof, we took the opportunity to hand out some well-deserved awards and prizes. We revealed our leaderboards numbers, which are numerical stats on how our clinicians performed this year, on a huge Jumbotron screen. With award categories ranging from Review Rockstar, to Patient Commitment, and our highly respected SPEAR Impact Award, we wanted to acknowledge our people's hard work and reward them for their dedication and tenacity, especially through one of the toughest times the city has ever been through. It is important to acknowledge those who go above and beyond for others, for they are true leaders! CEO and Co-founder Dan Rootenberg also presented the Armory Foundation with a $20,000 donation to be used towards the non-profit organization's mission to serve NYC youth by promoting fitness and education through a broad range of athletic, educational, and community programs.
SPEAR CEO and Co-founder, Dan Rootenberg, presents donation to The Armory Foundation
The rest of the day was just fun and games—literally! With gigantic versions of Jenga and Pac Man, an inflatable wrecking ball, a life-sized Twister board, and even a professional 'Simon Says' champion present to administer the game, the stadium was roaring with laughter and good vibes. And that's what it's truly all about—providing a fun, synergistic experience for all of our teammates who so deserved a breath of relief from a long year.
Thank you to the entire team for bringing their all to the profession every day, for continuing to put patients first, and for always helping to support one another. Together, we can do it all.
Our Freedom Region, the crowning champions of SPEAR-IT Week, share the coveted trophy prize!
The SPEAR Team!
SPEAR Celebrates 70 Pine's Expansion into a Better Space with a Ribbon Cutting!Growth and Expansion: E 84th St Celebrates With A Ceremonial Ribbon CuttingMiles Toward a Movement: An Effort to Promote Diversity and InclusionSPEAR CEO and Co-founder, Dan Rootenberg, featured on NPRMassage Guns—Yay or Nay? 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So, of course I checked out the video today. Dang! It's wicked professional looking. These guys take ukulele contests seriously! Anyway, give it a look and a listen. It's a catchy little song and the giant animals are pretty great. Best of luck in the contest, guys!


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Carol Kidd: Doing It Her Way
Carol Kidd at the 2016 Glasgow Jazz Festival (c) Sean Purser
If there was a stand-out artiste in last year's star-studded gala concert to mark the 40thanniversary of the Edinburgh Jazz Festival it was undoubtedly Carol Kidd, the irrepressible and internationally renowned Glaswegian singer whose powerful renditions of a couple of ballads brought the house down at the end of the first half and triggered a Mexican wave of sniffles across the auditorium.
The two songs which sent moist-eyed listeners scurrying for reinforcements on the Kleenex front were both new to her repertoire, and were among seven tracks she had just recorded for her new CD, Both Sides Now, which is released this spring. Live, at the concert, they revealed that Kidd has still got it. The voice is as commanding, clear and pure as ever, and her way of bringing a song to life is as spellbinding as it's always been.
Which is not something you can say of many jazz singers who are pushing 75. Indeed, there are not many jazz singers who their seventies and still have the "chops" that Kidd – who has always been a cut above the competition – has. Although she may have had more than her fair share of woes they haven't taken their toll on her voice. They've only shaped her attitude – and her current attitude is to keep on singing until she knows it's time to stop.
This, she explains from her home in Majorca, was very much in her mind when she began to think about the new album. "Most of the tracks on it are songs I've been listening to over the last couple of years, real gems, and I thought I'd better get round to recording them – I'm not getting any younger. Whereas sometimes you have a theme in mind for an album, or are asked to do it, this one came from the songs – they were the starting point, and they were what got me into that studio."
One of the Edinburgh stand-out songs was a Billy Joel ballad And So It Goes, which Joel wrote in the early 1980s, and recorded in 1990 and which was recorded a few years ago by Alan Cumming. How did she come across it?
"Well, my daughter Carol is always listening to music on Spotify and we'll sit together and we go through it looking for ideas. Last February we listened to lots of different stuff and came across this Billy Joel song I'd never heard before – I think it's one of his best songs."
It certainly comes over as a perfect fit for the singer who has often delved into the works of contemporary singer-songwriters for material and blended them into her unique repertoire alongside the Great American Songbook stalwarts. So, a typical Kidd concert at any point in the last 30 years might have been mostly standards by the likes of Porter, Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart but with songs by Randy Newman, Eva Cassidy, Sting or Don Henley also represented, depending on what she had been listening to.
But doesn't the Billy Joel number have a male point of view – this ballad about someone who's been hurt and risks letting a new love slip through his fingers because he's scared? "Oh no," insists Kidd. "To me it's just life. It applies to everybody, everybody has gone through that – kept too much to themselves and then they get in a situation where it's 'Do you want to be with me coz I want to be with you?' I sang it from my point of view. I was blown away by the response I got when I sang it at the jazz festival."
Both And So It Goes and the other "new" song introduced in Edinburgh – Something Wonderful, from Rodgers and Hammerstein's score for The King and I ("What a song! We came across that when we were listening to movie themes on Spotify ..") – were performed and recorded as duets with pianist Paul Harrison and could easily have come from any number of Kidd's previous albums. But you wouldn't describe this new CD as a jazz record – it is a distinctive mix of pop power ballad, folk, country & western and jazz and features such well-kent names as regular collaborator and former Wet Wet Wet member Graeme Duffin, on guitars, bass and drums and jazz and folk fiddle player Seonaid Aitken.
Kidd says: "Some of the tracks are quite Celtic-y – and I wanted it to be like that. For others, I wanted to have strings. When it came to the title song, Both Sides Now, I wanted a really full-on arrangement. I wanted it to sound wacky and really strange – because life is strange. I wanted the whole background to be strange."
Had Joni Mitchell's classic Both Sides Now been a favourite since she first heard it? "Well, when she did it, with just guitar, I liked the song – but she was a young girl then. I wanted it to be me as a mature woman, having lived my life. It's like Sinatra's My Way – I've been through all of this, all the ups and downs, the highs and lows. And I still don't have a bloody clue! It had to be the title track because the album is a sort of life story which reflects where I am and how I feel."
Has Kidd's way of selecting songs changed as she has aged? Does she now feel that it's a similar sort of challenge to the one faced by older actresses who decry the shortage of meaty roles for their age group? "Yes! I am very conscious of the fact that I am now older and that a lot of songs don't suit me any more. I choose songs according to my age. I don't want to be mutton dressed as lamb! I want to deal with my life as it is now – I can't sing silly boy-meets-girl songs in my seventies. I need lyrics which are more mature and have more substance."
Sometimes this need to reflect where she is in her life means that Kidd has to tinker with existing lyrics in order to make them work for her now. This was the case with the song with which she is most strongly associated –When I Dream. Twenty years ago, her recording of Sandy Mason's haunting ballad was picked to be on the soundtrack of a Korean blockbuster action movie, the success of which catapulted her to the top of the charts over there, and elevated her to superstar status in Asia. But by last year, she had begun to wonder if she might have outgrown one phrase in it.
The line goes 'I can go to bed alone and never know his name' and I thought: 'Aw come on. I'm too old for that!' So I changed it to 'and never speak his name'. So this is the mature version of When I Dream!"
One name that's missing from the list of singer-songwriters featured on the album is Carol Kidd's. She has previously recorded a handful of her own songs, most recently the title track of Tell Me Once Again, her acclaimed 2011 duo album with guitarist Nigel Clark – the last studio recording she did. But these days, her regular creative outlet tends to be painting, the art form which brought her back from "the depths" in the years following her partner John's sudden death back in the early 2000s, and which helped her again when she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer five years ago. "That's twice it's done it for me," she laughs.
In 2014, she was invited to stage her first exhibition, in Glasgow, and since then, painting has increasingly consumed her time. "I'm doing more painting than ever," she explains. "And I've sold more paintings than ever just recently. It's proving more lucrative than singing at the moment, especially since I can't get many gigs in the winter as the flights from Majorca are a nightmare."
But for the moment, Kidd is enjoying promoting Both Sides Now and looking forward to trying to get some concerts scheduled with the featured line-up. "I love this record," she says, "I really love it. My daughter said 'Your heart is smiling in it' – and she's right because I was enjoying making it so much; enjoying choosing the songs myself rather than being told to do them, and enjoying singing songs by songwriters I adore."
* Both Sides Now is out now, downloadable from www.carolkidd.bandcamp.com and on CD from www.carolkidd.co.uk
(c) Alison Kerr, 2019
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Tagged as Billy Joel, Both Sides Now, Carol Kidd, Edinburgh Jazz Festival, Graeme Duffin, Joni Mitchell, Paul Harrison, Sandy Mason, Seonaid Aitken, Spotify, Wet Wet Wet
Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2018: 40th Anniversary Jazz Gala
40th Anniversary Jazz Gala, Assembly Hall ****
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival swung into action on Friday, with a special concert as its showpiece event. It's 40 years since an embryonic version of the festival first took place and, on Friday, it revisited its old gala format with a sort of jazz variety show bringing together Scottish jazz stars who have notched up appearances in every full decade of its life.
Pianist Brian Kellock's relationship with the jazz festival dates back to even before his official debut there, in the 1980s. On Friday, reunited with drummer John Rae, his trio was in high spirits – though it was the languid Ballad For Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters that stood out.
Tenor saxophonist Tommy Smith, who also cut his jazz teeth in the festival's first decade, joined Kellock for a trio of tunes – notably a gorgeous Without a Song and a Sweet Georgia Brown that sent sparks flying – which highlighted their rapport and showed how attuned to each other's musical thought processes they are.
It was disappointing that Martin Taylor, one of the leading jazz guitarists in the world, got a little lost in the mix kicking off a second half which was to be dominated, time-wise, by a gypsy jazz group which only came on the scene a few years ago. Taylor's meander through Henry Mancini's bittersweet ballad Two For the Road was a mini-masterclass in the art of solo guitar.
It would have been even more of a treat to hear him play with singer Carol Kidd (pictured above, with pianist Paul Harrison) but she had done her bit, bringing the house down at the end of the first half with two stunning ballads – by Billy Joel and Richard Rodgers – which served as appetite-whetters for her concert next Saturday.
Nobody got more of the spotlight, however, than singer/violinist Seonaid Aitken, who was in her element hosting the show on the jazz festival's behalf, duetting with its stars and leading her band, Rose Room, through the longest set of the night.
An edited version of this review appeared on HeraldScotland on Monday, July 16th
Filed under Edinburgh Jazz Festival reviews archive, Uncategorized
Tagged as 40th anniversary gala, Brian Kellock, Carol Kidd, Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2018, Edinburgh Jazz Festival 40th Anniversary Jazz Gala, Martin Taylor, Paul Harrison, Rose Room, Seonaid Aitken, Tommy Smith
Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2017: Seonaid Aitken – A Night With Ella
Seonaid Aitken – A Night With Ella, Festival Theatre ***
After Alison Burns's homage to Ella Fitzgerald at the Glasgow Jazz Festival, it was Seonaid Aitken, recently named Best Vocalist at the Scottish Jazz Awards but originally known on the jazz scene as a dazzlingly talented violinist, who had the honour of marking the legendary singer's centenary for the Edinburgh Jazz Festival.
While Burns's concert was a duo affair, in an intimate venue, Aitken's, which featured the impressive Groove Merchant Big Band and The Scottish Festival Orchestra Strings, was the Saturday night slot at the Festival Theatre, an occasion which one might – given the jazz festival's long history of all-star extravaganzas – have expected to boast a number of better-known names, each perhaps focusing on a different aspect of Fitzgerald's back catalogue.
So, no pressure on Aitken then .. However, she pulled it out of the bag in terms of entertaining the audience with her warm personality and covering all areas of Fitzgerald's career singlehandedly; even managing to justify a violin feature because there's a violin solo on It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) from Fitzgerald's Ellington Songbook album.
That song, however, summed up the issue that any jazz aficionado might have had with this tribute. Its singer didn't swing. Aitken has a beautiful voice, and she swings like mad when playing her violin – but when she's singing lyrics, she is terribly sedate and sings the songs very straight. The stand-out of the evening was her recreation of Fitzgerald's iconic scat solo on How High the Moon – where she did a superb job of letting rip and going with the swinging flow of the fantastic big band behind her.
* First published in The Scotsman, Monday July 17th
Filed under Concert reviews, Edinburgh Jazz Festival reviews archive, Uncategorized
Tagged as Alison Burns, Ella Fitzgerald, Festival Theatre, Groove Merchant, Scottish Festival Orchestra Strings, Scottish Jazz Awards, Seonaid Aitken
Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2017: Rose Room Orchestra Fantastique
Rose Room Orchestra Fantastique, George Square Spiegeltent ****
In recent years, gypsy jazz bands with a Hot Club-inspired line-up have become as much a feature of jazz festivals as trad and Dixieland jazz groups and the most exciting ones are those in which the violinist and the lead guitarist are on equal musical footing (the Tim Kliphuis Trio, with Nigel Clark on guitar, springs to mind), or the band is doing something a bit different with the classic gypsy sound (Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole, for example).
Rose Room, the Glasgow-based quartet which boasts violinist extraordinaire Seonaid Aitken as its star, ticks neither of the above boxes on its own – but, on Friday, it brought in special guests to turn what could have been an enjoyable but unremarkable gig into something more becoming of a jazz festival opening night. Saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski injected a welcome dose of edginess to proceedings which, thanks to the jaunty, cheery tunes and Aitken's 1930s BBC radio dance band singing style, often sound cosily retro, while the addition of The Capella Quartet to a series of tunes from Rose Room's regular repertoire put a different spin on the music, and added depth and class.
Indeed, The Capella Quartet provided one of the highlights of the evening – a beautiful, unusual arrangement of Moonlight in Vermont which managed to just about block out the thumping, pumping beat emanating from the tent-next-door's soundcheck. Blues in My Heart – possibly the jolliest blues I've ever heard – also stood out because it featured Aitken's lovely vocals with a funky accompaniment from guitarist Tom Watson, playing chunky chords, and Wiszniewski at his downright raunchiest.
Tagged as Capella Quartet, Edinburgh Jazz Festival, Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole, Konrad Wiszniewski, Nigel Clark, Rose Room, Seonaid Aitken, Tim Kliphuis Trio, Tom Watson
Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2013: Swing 2013
Swing 2013, Royal Overseas League, Edinburgh, Friday July 26th ***
Along with the Queen's Hall, the Royal Overseas League, at 100 Princes Street, must be one of the only venues that has been a fixture of the Edinburgh Jazz Festival since it began in the 1970s. Ascending the stairs and navigating the maze of narrow corridors to find the always-crowded room – which, in recent years has been the festival home to some of the longest-serving local bands – always triggers flashbacks to the 1980s when the likes of Art Hodes, Milt Hinton and Dick Hyman were the draws.
The place has had a bit of a makeover recently (though one has the impression that the decorators might have had to work around the jazz festival audience since both it – and the volunteer who mans the ticket desk – seem to be part of the fixtures and fittings, never changing) – and so, by coincidence, has the band which was on the stand on Friday afternoon. Earlier this year, Swing 2013 lost its star soloist, the uber-talented Dick Lee – a virtuoso of the clarinet and various saxes. Its line-up may now be subject to change but on Friday it scored something of a winning goal by having as its guest the effervescent swing violinist Seonaid Aitken, whose ability to keep smiling gamely despite being verbally patted on the head at regular intervals by bandleader John Russell had to be admired.
With her bouncy, uplifting style of playing, Aitken evoked the spirit of Stephane Grappelli and enabled the band to dig deep into the Hot Club repertoire which he and gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt made famous. She won the packed house over from the off, but it was her dazzlingly accomplished solo on Bossa Dorado and her un-flashy, swoonsomely romantic contribution to Troublant Bolero which stood out.
* First published in The Herald on Monday, July 29th
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Tagged as Edinburgh Jazz Festival, John Russell, Royal Overseas League, Seonaid Aitken, Swing 2013
Review: Rose Room
Rose Room, Arlington Baths, Glasgow, Friday June 8 ***
They may have opened to members in 1870 but the Arlington Baths' West End Festival gig last night was the first concert in its 142-year history. Anyone who inferred from the festival programme that they might be sitting round the pool watching the band perform was in for a surprise/shock as the hour-long performance actually took place in the cosy bar where the band looked set to contend with noisy weans, diners and oldies out for a Friday night pint.
From the off, however, this Quintet of the Hot Club of France inspired quartet grabbed the attention of the punters and held on to it for most of the gig. Their stock in trade is jaunty, unpretentious, feelgood, gypsy jazz and their not-so secret weapon; the element which elevates it above what it would otherwise be, is Seonaid Aitken who sings in a ladylike style that contrasts with the passion of her more reckless-sounding violin playing which is dynamic and occasionally dazzling.
Indeed, whenever the attention of the audience began to wane – unsurprisingly, given that the punters hadn't paid for tickets and were (children aside) somewhat the merrier for the cheap bar – it was Aitken who drew it back. In a programme, and genre, dominated by fast or mid-tempo tunes, it was the ballads which stood out. Blues in My Heart was a stylishly arranged and executed example of Rose Room at its best, with lead guitarist Tom Watson serving up a particularly groovy solo and Aitken's vocals a delight.
Ditto for the concert's stand-out Don't Worry 'Bout Me on which the gentle swing of Watson's and Tam Gallagher's guitars plus Jimmy Moon's bass proved the perfect setting for her dreamy voice.
Catch them in a full concert at Oran Mor on June 22.
First published in The Scotsman, Saturday June 9
Tagged as Arlington Baths, Jimmy Moon, Oran Mor, Rose Room, Seonaid Aitken, Tam Gallagher, Tom Watson, West End Festival


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I have done some stuff with normal buttons and interrupts to wake up a node. I am wondering if anyone has done other stuff on the interrupts? Like a moisture/water sensor? im checking the feasibility of doing battery powered leak sensors. Seems like it would work since it's basically doing a button press by conducting through the water.
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I have a similar (same?) sensor type running on a Pro mini.
I uses a PNP to gain up the sensor current and ran it into INT1 . My RFM69 uses INTO.
Works perfect. I've been running it on 3 AAA *** Carbon! batteries for a few months to see how long the batteries work. I can't yet estimate the battery life because I'm using the internal measurement of Vcc (which goes through the regulator).
*** updated, the original post stated 2 AAA batteries. This was in error.
I ordered a couple of sensors yesterday so as soon as they come in ill start doing some testing with them.
@johnrob why are you using the regulator?
For sensors I'm using 4 stainless steel screws extending out the bottom of a plastic housing. They are spaced at the corners of a 5/8 square. I tested it with 2 screw and it worked fine but I went with 4 for the extra sense current.
I'm using 3 AAA batteries, my 2 AAA carbon battery statement was in error. When fresh the voltage exceeds the RFM69 input voltage specification.
you could use 3 ni-mh and get rid of the regulator, that drains battery fast unless you use a low quiescent current one.
I have door/window sensors running using interruptions. I got rid of the regulator and the power led and I am using a step up converter to take as much juice as possible from the batteries. The oldest node has been running for a year already on 2 AA batteries so your project is definitely doable.
The problem could be in case the leak sensor throws a lot of false positives in which case it would drain the battery quicker.
@david-cabañero Thanks David, i just got a few of the step ups so I will give that a shot. Because of some of my other projects I have TONS of 18650 cells laying around so I figure those are decent batteries for this.
are you running your nodes at 5V?
I think that 18650 will have plenty of juice for a project like this one.
Do you have an idea on how much does the water sensor consume in sleep mode? I am curious and I might actually go for the same project.
not sure about in sleep mode. But here is the sensor i am using.


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Q: C++ C-style array size limit I am trying to create a 2 dimensional int array of size 800.
This is my code:
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
    int array[800][800];
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}

My problem is that it never prints 1. I am using g++ as my compiler so it might have something to do with it's inner workings.
Furthermore, I couldn't find anywhere on the web saying there was a limit (except for 2^32 and such) to the size of a c-style array.
When I try creating one with size 700 it works just fine.
Does anyone have an idea where this limit comes into effect and how I can overcome it?

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Does anyone have an idea where this limit comes

It comes fromn the language implementation. The space available for automatic storage is typically limited to one or few megabytes (potentially less on embedded systems) and that space is shared with all automatic variables on the same thread of execution.
Since this area of memory is called the stack, the crash that you are experiencing is called a stack overflow.

how I can overcome it?

Use dynamic or static storage instead of automatic for large objects.

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Q: Is the Azure Table Client for .NET Threadsafe? Can I just have one global instance of the client and table, or do I need a separate instance per thread?
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They look great! I'm sure they were much loved by the teachers.