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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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Four New Albums

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: April 4, 2008
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 [...]
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Jazz Yoda

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: January 30, 2008
Upon an enthusiastic recommendation, I attended Barry Harris‘ weekly jazz workshop last night.  Barry is a legendary jazz pianist and fervent jazz educator who, at the age of 78, hosts a workshop every Tuesday night for musicians of all levels.  That is to say, beginners are welcome, but he goes through stuff fast and it’s [...]
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9 Goes To 10

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: January 9, 2008
On Monday night, my friend Josh Irving played at a fairly new Brazilian jazz club in New York called Cachaça.  Josh is a saxophonist I’ve known for nearly nine years now (has it been that long already?).  His quartet featured long time collaborator George Dulin on piano, Danny Zanker on bass, and special guest [...]
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There is food in the alumni tent

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 15, 2007
I never knew there was an alumni tent! Every October, my high school hosts a marching band competition, an all day event that involves scores of bands from the northeast. I drop in whenever I get a chance, and usually see a few familiar faces. Well, this time my friend Dan mentioned [...]
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