From the category archives:
f you follow me on Twitter you’ve certainly heard me talk about my love for the website Nextbop.com. The site is run by two 20-something jazz fans from Montreal (@nextbop), and gets regular contributions from another 20-something jazz fan from San Antonio, named Anthony Dean-Harris (@retronius).
Their stated mission is to “create a website with [...]
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a href=”http://thejazzsession.com”>The Jazz Session is an online show focusing on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians. The show is hosted by Jason Crane, a saxophone player, radio host, commentator and one of the finest interviewers in jazz today. His unique view of jazz from many different angles allows him to speak to the musicians with authority [...]
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ecently I had two experiences that made me think about how fortunate I am to have a band that has been playing together for three years now. The first was an interview I did with Jason Crane for The Jazz Session, an online show focusing on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians. The second was seeing [...]
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saw Chris Botti for the first time tonight at The Paramount Theater in Seattle. Thanks to my Twitter buddy Tim Lefebvre, who plays bass is Chris’ band (among others), I had KILLER 4th row center seats. Thanks Tim!
The show was an eye-opening experience in many ways. I have heard all the talk about Chris, [...]
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s I mentioned in my last post, there’s been some negative talk about jazz musicians playing tribute shows to other jazz musicians recently. Journalist Phil Freeman discussed the idea in this Twitter conversation, jazz blogger Peter Hum took a little shot in this post, and trombonist Vincent Gardner wrote the most extensive piece on the [...]
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atching the Grammy Awards tonight I was struck with one thought: they might call that the Music Industry, but that has nothing to do with what I do as a working musician. I have been a professional musician for 15 years, and it’s been my sole job for 9 of those years. But whatever that [...]
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was so proud to participate in the Seattle Jazz Community Haiti Quake Fundraiser last Wednesday. I played at LUCID Jazz Lounge with four of my great friends, and there were 6 other bands in 6 different venues up and down University Avenue in Seattle. Overall we raised more than $4000 which will be sent [...]
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had a truly remarkable “full-circle” moment last Friday that I’ve been wanting to share with you. You can read some of the backstory here.
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a href=”http://artcetera.squarespace.com”>My wife alerted me to yet another way to help spread the word about people in the blogosphere doing things to help out with Haiti earthquake relief. Through Danielle LaPorte at White Hot Truth.com she found out about the Help Haiti Blog Challenge put together by Kelly Diels.
Kelly says:
You’ve got something to offer: whether [...]
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b>UPDATE: Lucid and other University Ave businesses are planning a benefit on Wednesday. Details ASAP.
I’ve been seeing the images from Haiti off and on for the past day and I can’t even believe the destruction and tragedy that is happening there in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake. The word tragedy gets thrown around a [...]
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