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Month: September 2008

Miguel Zenon – MacArthur Genius

Posted on September 29, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Miguel Zenon – MacArthur Genius

Damn. Congrats man. The MacArthur foundation is giving him $500K, no strings attached.

Just don’t invest it in the stock market right now……..

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Live Jazz Concert Recordings

Posted on September 27, 2008October 26, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Live Jazz Concert Recordings

Sometimes on the internet, you find some great sites. This is one such site. “You Are What You Hear” is a great site that has concert recordings from great artists such as Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, John Scofield……to name a very few. Well worth spending some time getting some of the recording here.

I think the best recording is the Michael Brecker : Montreal Jazz Festival 27.6.2001. Simply amazing.

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Posted on September 19, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Ok, not Jazz or Saxophone related, but entertaining none the less. Check out Joss Whedon’s latest masterpiece. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

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Ralph Moore – Bye Bye Blackbird

Posted on September 15, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Ralph Moore – Bye Bye Blackbird

Another transcribed solo by Kenyon Carter. Ralph Moore playing Bye Bye Blackbird off the Album “Ralph Moore and Ray Brown – Moore Makes 4”

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Bob Mintzer – Listen Here

Posted on September 15, 2008September 15, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Bob Mintzer – Listen Here

Transcribed solo of Bob Mintzer on Listen Here off the album “Bob Mintzer Quartet – In The Moment”. Transcribed by Kenyon Carter.

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Stan Getz – The Way You Look Tonight

Posted on September 15, 2008September 17, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Stan Getz – The Way You Look Tonight

Transcribed solo of Stan Getz on The Way You Look Tonight from the Album “Ultimate Stan Getz” (probably on another albums/compilations too). Transcribed by Kenyon Carter.

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Eric Alexander – Solid

Posted on September 15, 2008September 15, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Eric Alexander – Solid

Kenyon Carter sent some transcriptions to put up. The first of which is Eric Alexander on the song Solid off the album “Eric Alexander – Solid”. Enjoy!

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Pink Floyd Founder Dies

Posted on September 15, 2008September 15, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Pink Floyd Founder Dies

From the BBC
Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died at the age of 65 from cancer.

I always think of Pink Floyd as sort of a Miles Davis rock group (without Miles). Lots of colors, and mood to their music. Plus, they had saxophone (sometimes).

I can cite two songs that were influential in me wanting to play saxophone. The first was Michael Frank’s “Dr. Sax” which features Michael Brecker (I didn’t know who the saxophone player was at the time. I just knew he had unearthly talent). The second song was “Us and Them” by Pink Floyd. Dunno, love that song.

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Favorite Podcasts

Posted on September 13, 2008September 15, 2008 By ericdano 2 Comments on Favorite Podcasts

iTunes is a great thing….not only for managing music, but for finding and getting Podcasts. Here are some of my picks.

  • In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond
  • NPR: Jazz Profiles Podcast
  • The SaxTips Podcast
  • Detroit JazzStage

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SmartMusic 11 Released

Posted on September 12, 2008September 17, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on SmartMusic 11 Released

MakeMusic released SmartMusic 11 on Thursday. After nearly 3 hours of downloading at a whopping 10k/sec, I got it. Installed it. And…….well, it looks the same. No interface changes. Can’t really tell what they did to it.

Certainly not worth a 11 release. Maybe a 10.2 or something.

They really need to change the interface, fix the green follow line (STILL lags behind on my iMac 2gigahertz Core 2 Duo on up tempo songs), and all the other things I’ve complained about before.

Oh, and add Grainger’s Children’s March to the Concert Band library………

UPDATE: I also get this message on my Mac:
“Warning: you do not have write access to all files and folders under ‘/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/SmartMusic Studio’. Certain aspects of SmartMusic may not work, including Impact assignments. To fix this issue, contact your network administrator.”

First thing is that the program installs SmartMusic in the System Library, not the user area. Why? Dunno. And looking at the directory permissions I see: “drwxrwxrwx 7 ericdannewitz admin 238 Sep 13 11:46 SmartMusic Studio”

So……what gives guys?

UPDATE: Oh, found another thing. You can continue to use the program while it downloads new music. That certainly qualifies for a 11 release (tongue in cheek).

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MakeMusic To Charge For Finale Notepad 2009 Downgrade

Posted on September 4, 2008 By ericdano 6 Comments on MakeMusic To Charge For Finale Notepad 2009 Downgrade

MakeMusic announced today that they are going to be charging for Finale Notepad 2009, which for almost 8 years has been a free product.
“In the next few weeks we plan to release Finale NotePad 2009 with even more features, including an all new Expression Tool and the ability to import/export MusicXML files. It will continue to include free online support. At the same time we will begin charging $9.95 for the NotePad 2009 download.”

Ooo, Online support? XML importing? Wow. Sign me up. NOT.

Meanwhile, get Finale Notepad 2008 while you can. Finale 2009 is a downgrade. Staff Lists limited to 4 (used to be unlimited). Most of TGTools handy utilities do not work (Align/Move, which I use a lot) because of “new” Expression tool. *sigh*. Just avoid it. Unless they are going to be including Garritan sounds with it (hahahaha, yeah, right), $9.95 for their new expression tool and XML importing?

MakeMusic needs to cut down on the number of products it has. It has Finale, Finale Allegro, PrintMusic, Songwriter, Notepad and SmartMusic. Just keep Notepad free, drop Songwriter, drop the price of PrintMusic to $60, and drop Allegro to like $150. Simple.

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Don LaFontaine Dies

Posted on September 2, 2008 By ericdano No Comments on Don LaFontaine Dies

Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the sonorous voice for more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday at age 68. LaFontaine was known as the “king of the movie trailers,” having done the trailer voiceovers for films such as Terminator, Fatal Attraction, Cheaper by the Dozen, Batman Returns and his personal favourite, The Elephant Man.

Yeah, I know, not really saxophone related, but this guys voice was amazing.

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