The New Jason Parker Quartet CDs are in Transit!

August 25, 2009

This picture is just about the most beautiful thing in the world to me right now! At long last the new Jason Parker Quartet CDs are in transit and should arrive on my doorstep tomorrow. I have been able to listen to the music for a while now and you can too by clicking the […]

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Makin’ it Happen – How Artists Make Money on NPR’s All Things Considered

August 21, 2009

Every Friday on this blog is “Makin’ it Happen Friday”, where I feature another musician who’s found a way to make a living playing music. I am constantly inspired by others, and hope to pass that inspiration on to you. OK, so this week our feature is not actually one musician. But my fiance hipped […]

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Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble: “Birth of the Cool” Tribute

August 21, 2009

I’m thrilled to be part of the debut of the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble tomorrow night at Lucid Jazz Lounge in Seattle. My good friends Michael Owcharuk and Nate Omdal put this group together after the very successful Slava concert last February. They have brought together some of the finest musicians and composers in the […]

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The Proactive & Positive Musician

August 15, 2009

NOTE: This post started as a reply on a thread at Trumpet Herald.com. The thread was referencing Terry Teachout’s Wall Street Journal Article “Can Jazz Be Saved?”, which I wrote about here. After posting my reply to the rather long thread I thought it deserved a post of its own. I hope this is the […]

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Makin’ it Happen – Beth Fleenor

August 14, 2009

Every Friday on this blog is “Makin’ it Happen Friday”, where I feature another musician who’s found a way to make a living playing music. I am constantly inspired by others, and hope to pass that inspiration on to you. I have had the pleasure of working with Beth Fleenor on a number of occasions, […]

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Jazz: A Museum Piece or a Living, Breathing Artform? It’s Up to Us!

August 8, 2009

Peter Hum over at Jazzblog.ca has become one of my favorite writers in the jazz blogosphere. He writes consistently thoughtful and insightful pieces on the issues we face, the music we play and the personalities that make up the jazz community. His latest post raises the question of why jazz is not appealing to a […]

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Label Signs to Band, and the Whole World Changes!

August 7, 2009

Props to fellow Seattlites Blue Scholars who just announced a deal with Duck Down Records and Cafe Vita. What’s different about this deal is that the band has hired the label and will retain all rights to their music and control over all aspects of marketing and distribution. Caffe Vita will distribute their CDs locally, […]

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Balance is in the Contrasts

August 6, 2009

This weekend PBS aired “The Sound of Miles Davis”, a 30-minute program from 1959 featuring the Miles Davis Quintet with an orchestra conducted by Davis’ long-time collaborator Gil Evans. I watched this show with my fiance who was asking some questions about the band and the music and what made it so special. I love […]

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Here’s to Possibility!

August 3, 2009

“Is this to end or just begin?” – Robert Plant, “All of My Love” As I mentioned in my last post, after close to a year of planning and execution my new CD with the Jason Parker Quartet is now complete. And as happy as I am about that, it leaves me in a new […]

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Jason Parker Quartet CD is Complete!

July 30, 2009

After months of planning, writing, arranging, rehearsing, recording, mixing, mastering, licensing, copyrighting, artwork-approving, liner note-writing and many different people-paying, the new Jason Parker Quartet CD “No More, No Less” is now complete! I sent the final files and master off to the replicator this week and should have the physical CD’s in my hands sometime […]

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