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But Beautiful Instant Recording Session

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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Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Videos

It’s been over 30 years since I carried lunch to school with a Space Shuttle Enterprise Lunch Box, but the launch videos are still incredibly exciting to watch. This is an HD video of Atlantis‘ second to last mission STS-129. (Kudos to the commentator for using the term penultimate.) You need to a flashplayer [...]
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Earth Day with The Lorax

The Lorax was one of my favorite top three books as a child, and I suspect played a large role in my interest in the environment as an adult. With Earth Day on my mind, I searched YouTube for The Lorax not expecting to find anything (someone keeps the Internet fairly scoured clean of [...]
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Flame-O-Phone Video

My friend Stefan rigged an old bari sax to shoot five feet of propane-fueled flame from the bell! This video of a test run is making it’s rounds on the internet: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Check out Stefan’s account at Introducing: The Flame-O-Phone!.
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Sax Clips From The Puck

Here’s a roughly-edited sampling of sax clips from last Saturday night’s BlackTails gig at The Puck: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video We sold out the joint and made a lot of friends. It was definitely a party. A word about The Puck. It’s a really awesome venue. [...]
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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 [...]
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Sunday Afternoon Nerd Mashup Fest

Star Trek Meets Monty Python! I love it. Well done! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Star Trek A-Team. This is just a seque… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video …into Han Solo, P.I.! Here is the side-by-side comparison. It’s [...]
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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: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Today, Stef [...]
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Muppet Beatles

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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9 Goes To 10

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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