blue note album covers come to life
If you dig the look of all those great midcentury Blue Note album covers, you need to see this super hip Bella Vista Social Pub. Hi-Fi from bante on Vimeo. Continue Reading
Posts Tagged ‘Jazz’
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Posted in blog on June 21, 2010
Posted in portfolio on January 4, 2010
day 4
“We See” is an excellent Thelonious Monk composition from his quintessential Straight, No Chaser. The text and music here is taken from my transcription of it – an exercise in how black and white .pdfs behave in Adobe Illustrator. The background is the result of one of ... Continue Reading
Posted in blog on March 13, 2009
house concerts | better than audiophile
House concerts are a concept that started with the jazz of the 1920’s. Â They were called rent parties then and allowed neighbors to help neighbors, raising money for the musicians or other poor tenants looking to keep their landlords off their backs. As the bell tolls for the musi ... Continue Reading
Posted in blog on December 5, 2008
(real) fake books galore
Thanks to David Valdez (Casa Valdez) for posting several wonderful fakebooks at his blog.  Sarting yesterday with a post on the Blue Book, the following are available: The Great Gig Book (the Blue Book) Jazz Standards (Swing to Bop) Library of Musicians’ Jazz Fakebook The Samm ... Continue Reading
Posted in blog on May 7, 2008
everything i know about jazz i learned on teh inte ...
A point-on post from I was doing alright worth reposting here: A few months ago I was introduced to the director of jazz studies at one of the local Atlanta universities. For the sake of anonymity, let’s call him Joshua. The person making the introduction told Joshua that I have a w ... Continue Reading
Posted in blog on September 23, 2006
Summertime
As it draws to a close, this has got to be one of the baddest arrangements of Summertime I’ve ever heard: Continue Reading
