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Upcoming Gig – Reid Stowe 1,000 Days at Sea Return Party – Jun 20

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: June 17, 2010
I’ve got a really cool gig coming up this Sunday with TSS YUKONAUGHTICA and friends! Seafaring adventurer Reid Stowe returned to New York City today from his record-setting 1,152 day ocean voyage. His journey was intended to simulate the theoretical 1,000+ day voyage from Earth to Mars. Sunday’s show is a welcome [...]
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But Beautiful Instant Recording Session

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: May 28, 2010
Here’s the video and recording from a session I played on Tuesday with the TSS Yukonaughtica crew. Guitarist Todd Colburn is creating a series of weekly recordings each recorded, mixed, edited, and released within 24 hours. I enjoyed the honor of participating in this week’s East Village basement recording of "But Beautiful": You need [...]
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It’s Time! Album Art

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 12, 2009
Here’s another homework assignment from my Basic Graphic Arts class. We had to pick an album with horrible artwork and design a new cover. The professor wanted us to design a cover based on how the music made us feel. Then we’d present our ideas and designs to the class and listen [...]
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Macarena Sax Jam

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 2, 2009
This is a fun clip of an impromptu jam that broke out after our gig last Friday. The whole gig was a bit like this, featuring live musicians jamming with a DJ. Half the band has put its instruments away by the time we did this, though, and the DJ is holding the [...]
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Fifty Weddings in Fifty States

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 1, 2009
It’s kickoff time for Duke Baxter’s fifty-state project Interstate Soul! Our first "state gig" is in Vermont this weekend. I’ve been playing with the Duke Baxter Band since 2004, and I can tell you this is a great band with a fun act composed of solid musicians and excellent people. I’ll also say that you’d [...]
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Chris Potter solo All the Things You Are

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: August 14, 2009
A while back, Russ sent me this video (audio really) of Chris Potter playing All the Things You Are at a master class. It is mind blowing, and I’ve recently come back to it to work out what I can on my tenor: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Today, Stef [...]
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Smaz Blues

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: March 22, 2009
I finally got around to installing software on my digital audio workstation today.  The machine, cobbled together from old parts, is an Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.  It’s dual booting Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and Ubuntu 8.10.  I usually have it running in Ubuntu as my media server [...]
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Muppet Beatles

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: February 5, 2009
Who does Beatles covers better than the Muppets? Blackbird You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video While My Guitar Gently Weeps You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Octopus’s Garden You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video She Loves You You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to [...]
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Music Goals 2009

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: December 11, 2008
Setting some realistic and worthwhile music goals for myself next year: Attend more jam sessions I always tell myself this, but don’t follow through for more than a session or two.  For one, I never have a lot of tunes in my head.  It take so much time and study to build up a viable repertoire; time [...]
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Frank Viele – Free MP3 Download

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: December 6, 2008
I recorded some studio tracks with Frank Viele & The Manhattan Project a few weeks ago for our upcoming album.  We released this track online to promote the band at the Gavin DeGraw concert in Hartford tonight.  This is "Turn Around", featuring a saxophone solo by yours truly: Please download from the band site… http://www.frankvielemusic.com/mp3/turnaround.html Let me know [...]
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