Ahhhhh, the quest to fund an album! The days of record labels and development deals are gone, as we all know. As The Gunslinger, Roland, would say, the world has moved on. So, I have been searching for a way to raise money for my upcoming album. I really like the Artist Share approach but [...]
Working on the music for this album has been a lot of fun. I may even have time to add a tune or two to the six originals that I already have prepared and I know there will be one tune that my trombonist, Martin Sager, wrote. I have been ready to start rehearsal for about [...]
Ok, things got a little crazy last week so I missed a DIG…but hey, I said it would be “mostly weekly!” Anyhow, for this installment, I am going to cover an album that means a lot to me. You see, back in 2004, I was a lost man. Living in Atlanta, I had just gotten [...]
Ok, you’ve got a lot going on, right? You’ve got music to make and tours to play and social networks to maintain so, why should you throw anything else into the mix? Well, let’s see…somebody asks someone you know “hey, I need a band to play…” and that somebody hands them your business card. Now, [...]
This week’s DIG is not only a new release (the first for DIG) but it’s also from a bass player (another first). I was hipped to this cat while reading a great blog by Sarah Crisman called Come play with us, New York. The artist, Yuka Tadano (the YT in YT Little D), is an upright/electric [...]
A little more than a week ago, I agreed to do a little gig with a friend of mine. This friend, with whom I have been sharing the stage with at Wiregrass Church for six months or so, is the operator of the flagship location of a local fast food chicken joint called Goldfingers. He [...]
It’s already time for another DIG and man do I have a good one for you! It’s an older album by saxophonist, Chris Potter, that I came across while randomly hitting buttons on my Droid. I’ve loved the album since I first heard it a couple years back and now it has, once again, taken over my [...]
Back on the last day of February, I posted a blog which chronicled the first step in recording my upcoming debut studio album. So, here’s an update. Towards the end of last week, I finished the sixth tune for the album. As I mentioned, I already had a few done. I have two tunes left [...]
A lot of you know that, in an attempt to raise jazz awareness and build a scene in my area, I started a website (www.dothanjazz.com). With this, I have tried to contact all the cats I know or know of and worked on spreading the word so I can add info to the site and [...]
For a while now, I have been posting links to things I find and love to various places. My point is to support jazz and show people that it’s everywhere and easy to get. I wanted to expand this so I started posting it to Twitter, too. Now, I want to take it even farther. [...]
