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Category Archives: Music
Macarena Sax Jam
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 [...]
Fifty Weddings in Fifty States
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
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:
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Today, Stef [...]
Smaz Blues
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 [...]
Muppet Beatles
Who does Beatles covers better than the Muppets?
Blackbird
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Octopus’s Garden
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She Loves You
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Music Goals 2009
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
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
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Four New Albums
I picked up some CD’s this week at Bleecker Records. After spending a few days listening to these, I’m happy to say I was 4-for-4. Yeah, even in this age of downloads, I still dig on the actual plastic discs. No iTunes for me. Of course, I immediately rip ‘em to my hard drive, but [...]
It’s Time! Album Art