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Plans for the new JPQ CD have begun! “Homegrown” will feature music written by my Seattle Jazz peers

by Jason on February 20, 2012 · 3 comments

Tweet Almost immediately after the completion of our last CD, I started to mull over ideas for our next one. Such is the life of the working musician! I came up with a number of ideas, including an album of my compositions, an album of my favorite standards, an album of pop covers. All those [...]

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The music industry is a construct. Musicians are the reality

by Jason on January 2, 2012 · 16 comments

in Business,Thoughts

Tweet I inadvertently stumbled across some comments I wrote back in May of 2011 on a post over at Digital Music News called The Music Industry: It’s Becoming a Third World Country… written by Paul Resnikoff. After reading the original article and the subsequent comments again I realized that the points I made back then [...]

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TONIGHT: Internet Broadcast From My New Band, Tango Ahora!, on Google Plus!

by Jason on August 8, 2011 · 2 comments

in Bands,Gigs

Tweet Tonight at 7pm my new band, Tango Ahora!, will make it’s debut live on the internet, thanks to the new technology called the Google Plus Hangout. Google Plus is the new social networking site from the internet search giant. I hopped on board early, and have found it to be sort of a cross [...]

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You Never Know Who’s Listening (Or, How I Got Interviewed by the BBC)

by Jason on July 12, 2011 · 4 comments

in Marketing/Promotion,Thoughts

Tweet A couple days ago my friend Spekulation posted on Facebook that he was DJ’ing at a site called Turntable.fm. I had never heard of it, but I was intrigued and wanted to find out what he was talking about. So I clicked the link and was thrown down a deep rabbit hole! Turntable.fm is [...]

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One Working Musician/Daddy!

by Jason on May 28, 2011 · 6 comments

in Parenthood,Thoughts

Tweet That’s right…I’m going to be a daddy! My wife and I found out recently that we’re going to have a baby girl. Poppy, as we’ve been calling her (because when we found out we were pregnant, the book said she was the size of a poppy seed), will be joining us in October. Even [...]

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Music From My Students – So Proud!

by Jason on May 2, 2011 · 0 comments

in Teaching

Tweet For the last 6 years I have been teaching Rock Band workshops at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. During the summer, winter and spring school breaks we bring teens together from all over the region and teach them what it means to play in a real rock band. We have between 7-15 students [...]

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Seattle Trumpet Players are Hot Right Now!

by Jason on April 13, 2011 · 1 comment

in Music

Tweet I just noticed that as of today, 4 of the top 10 downloads at All About Jazz.com are from Seattle trumpet players! Cuong Vu (#1), Chad McCullough (#3), Thomas Marriott (#6) and I (#9) all have new albums out, and if the AAJ list is any indication, we’re all doing mighty well! Do yourself [...]

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Notes On My New CD Five Leaves Left, Track By Track – 10. “Saturday Sun”

by Jason on April 8, 2011 · 0 comments

in Five Leaves Left Track By Track,Nick Drake Project

Tweet On Tuesday, March 29th, “Five Leaves Left: A Tribute To Nick Drake” by the Jason Parker Quartet was released. Each day thereafter I wrote at length about one of the tracks – how the arrangement came about, what went down in the studio, thoughts about the performances, etc. Click here to read them all. [...]