I am sure this is making the rounds, but I just saw it this morning (thanks to jw). Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Crazy Cool Kwanzaa, I hope you had a Happy Hannukah, and please have a great anything else that I may have missed.
Author: Jeff Albert
Jeff Albert » BoX3 – prototype
The BoX3 CD, “prototype” has arrived. Hear samples and buy it here:BoX3 – prototype
It is a hand numbered limited run of 200 copies.
BoX3 in Chicago
I’ll be in Chicago this Sunday (9 Dec) with BoX3 at the Ears and Eyes Festival.
Give clear direction…
I found these notes on my part to the Nutcracker.
It came off beautifully in performance.
Zing!
This is a new disc from some Chicago area friends/colleagues. Matt just laid a copy on me this past week, and I have been enjoying it greatly. More info/samples/purchasing info can be found here.
I’ll get to hear them live (and you can too) at the Ears and Eyes Festival in Chicago on December 9, 2007. They will perform right before BoX3 (which is a trio of trombone and electronics that i do with Dan Oestricher and Justin Peake).
Ethan Iverson on Bill McHenry
One of the best music writer lines I have read…ever… contained in this post:Do The Math : Bill McHenry
It’s sort of like Lester Young playing in a bar on Mars.
Ethan’s review of McHenry’s music was so moving that I had downloaded his new album from eMusic even before I got to the Pres line. (Ok, that’s not entirely true. I was trying to download the new album, but eMusic’s poorly administered and insanely frustrating download software was not cooperating. I finally sorted it out, and am now digging the McHenry as I write this.)
Ethan did something else that I respect in a music writer (or any human for that matter), which was be totally upfront about his motives, interests, and any conflicts thereof. Right on.
Where the Music Surrounds Him – New York Times
Where the Music Surrounds Him – New York Times
A good NYT article on the recent doings of Roswell Rudd. be sure to check out the audio slideshow.
Our responsibility as performers
Yesterday I had a great hang with Thollem McDonas, who is in town to perform on the Open Ears Music Series tonight. The conversation turned to audience development at one point, and we were discussing ways to connect audiences and music that might not know they like each other yet. This led to thoughts about our responsibilities as performers, mainly the idea that we have the responsibility to always give honest and convicted performances. We can’t decry a lack of audience for our music, if we aren’t giving those audiences the real deal every time.
I am sure this isn’t anything we don’t already know, but it was on my mind…
Richard Kamins | See! Hear!: Music from Here and There
One of the beauties of the internet, and posting full show archives, is that your show can be reviewed by writers whose expense accounts likely won’t cover cab fare from Hartford to New Orleans. I got a nice email from Richard Kamins, who writes about music for the Hartford Courant, letting me know that he had reviewed the JAQ show at Open Ears, via the mp3 archive. Pretty cool, eh?
To make it even cooler, it is a great review. Click the link below and scroll down to read it.
Open Ears Music performance archive #1 is up
One of the things that we would like to do with the Open Ears Music Series is to keep a web archive of each performance (with artist permission). The first one is up and can be found here: