October 26, 2007 – 5:41 pm
When I was in high school, the band teacher ran a jazz program before school. He was paid to lead the big band three days a week, and the other two days he’d open up the room, and the few kids in our school who really knew how to play would play in a combo [...]
October 25, 2007 – 2:32 am
Yusef Lateef, Every Village Has a Song, disc 2. No one rocks the oboe like Yusef. I still have to buy the poster my friend DiDonna made for him.
October 25, 2007 – 1:40 am
I have my first regular gig in Phoenix!
Privas is me on trombone, Nick Watts on drums, Harald Weinkum on bass, and Dave Henning on keyboard. I was stressing about playing keyboard with them (see my last post), but I couldn’t make their first gig, and my sub Dave asked if he could stay. So now [...]
October 24, 2007 – 11:35 pm
So my company, One Light Music, now produces all the music for Stage Stars Records, which puts out karaoke CD’s of musicals. I think we’re listed on their CD’s as “music programmers”. I’ve worked on Godspell, Damn Yankees and Hairspray since joining, but neither of them have been released yet. Anyway, we’re working on West [...]
October 13, 2007 – 4:42 pm
Can anyone give me some advice about this?
I think I have sideman’s fever. I’m tired of playing in other people’s musical groups and working hard to do what they want. I want to be in charge of some music that’s MINE, based on my thinking and my creativity.
And I’m having a bit of a musical [...]
October 8, 2007 – 3:56 pm
We ran out of friends to sing guide vocals for our Spiritrax songs, so we advertised for singers on Craigslist and were lucky to get a call from Mandi Leigh. Mandi just got back from a tour of the Carribbean and Central America, and is going on an American college tour soon to promote her [...]
October 3, 2007 – 4:30 pm
It occurred to me that my last post of Spiritrax songs would be hard to appreciate unless you know the songs, because they didn’t have guide vocals recorded yet. So from now on I won’t link to ST songs until they have vocals recorded.
Here are all the songs I’ve done for Spiritrax that do have [...]
