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The Music of George Garzone & The Triadic Chromatic Approach DVD

October 28, 2008October 28, 2008 ericdano No Comments

George Garzone has a 2 DVD instructional set coming out next month. $89.95. Sounds interesting. “The Music of George Garzone & The Triadic Chromatic Approach”, is a Jazz Improvisation Instructional DVD and much, much more. MADE FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS Performances: Solo, Duos, Trios, an Sextet performances The Triadic Chromatic Approach: 23 Chapters & 30 Examples…

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Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane Church in Trouble

October 20, 2008 ericdano No Comments

From the SF Chronicle: “..earlier this year one of its principal funders, the New College of California, collapsed financially, leaving the church without a vital income source. The school had paid two-thirds of the church’s rent, so now King and his retinue are again asking its members and the community to help the church.” Background…

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Jazz Side Of The Moon

October 13, 2008January 21, 2009 ericdano No Comments

Here are the ingredients of a great album and recording: 1. Great songs….Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon…..check 2. Good arrangements of said songs…..check 3. Great players…..check 4. Record everything live, with a single microphone and no digital “wizardary” (not Pro Tools *gasp*)…..check The sound of the album is great (seriously, no Pro Tools)….

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Miguel Zenon – MacArthur Genius

September 29, 2008 ericdano No Comments

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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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

September 19, 2008 ericdano No Comments

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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Pink Floyd Founder Dies

September 15, 2008September 15, 2008 ericdano No Comments

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…

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Favorite Podcasts

September 13, 2008September 15, 2008 ericdano 2 Comments

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 These are the “Jazz” ones I have subscribed to. Anyone have any others they’d recommend?

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Don LaFontaine Dies

September 2, 2008 ericdano No Comments

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….

LeRoi Moore Dies

August 19, 2008 ericdano No Comments

This is sad, tragic news: “LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday from complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an ATV accident, the band’s publicist said.” DMB is one of the few good rock bands out there…..he is going to be hard to replace…..

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Randy Pausch – Last Lecture

July 26, 2008 ericdano No Comments

Now, this really has nothing to do with saxophone. Or Jazz. But it is well worth your time to watch. Here is a little background on Randy Pausch and his death this week from incurable pancreatic cancer. His approach to teaching is something I strive to do.

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Looking For A New Server

July 25, 2008 ericdano No Comments

I’m looking for a new server to host Jazz-Sax on. The current server, a 1997 Dual Pentium II 450 with an Adaptec RAID card and two 40gig hard drives works ok, but it is huge, eats lots of electricity, and generates a lot of heat and noise. What I’m looking for is perhaps someone who…

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Johnny Griffin Dies

July 25, 2008 ericdano No Comments

Sad news today “US jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played alongside such luminaries as Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk, died Friday in France, his agent Helene Manfredi said. He was 80. Nicknamed the Little Giant, Griffin was due to perform Friday evening alongside US organist Rhoda Scott, French saxophonist Olivier Temime and…

Ode To Joy

July 21, 2008 ericdano No Comments

Ok, not saxophone related. But this is good. Really.

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Finale 2009 – Defining Mediocrity

July 9, 2008 ericdano 10 Comments

Continuing it’s yearly practice, MakeMusic announced Finale 2009. Basically, they are not raising the bar at all, again, with this. For $99, you finally get: Engraver Slurs fixed (which really should have been fixed 5 years ago) a Baritone Sax in the included Garritan sounds (plus, vintage electric piano, electric guitar, electric bass, vibraphone, handbells…and…

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Great Idea….Bad Timing??

June 22, 2008 ericdano No Comments

Finally, a professional mobile solution for recording on an iPod. The Alesis Protrack sounds good… ProTrack provides convenient, direct-to-iPod stereo digital recording to iPod in a portable, handheld form factor. Users can capture live audio anywhere and anytime with their iPod or iPod nano. ProTrack’s smart design integrates the iPod into the recorder, with included…

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