Shagtastic Voyage

OK, I am completely addicted to Adam Ben Ezra. His music is great and his videos are just plain awesome. They have bass, ingenuity, comedy, and are usually pretty telling about his lack of a social life. Sounds like a WIN right off the bat, huh? Well, wait ’till you see it.  I came across [...]

As you have probably noticed by now, it takes little to amuse me. Sometimes, the simplest tracks, fills, grooves, videos, or whatever can hit me and hold me down like a schoolyard bully. Such is the case with this week’s DIG. I found this video about a week ago (I have to give it up [...]

Where I come from, jazz is somewhat similar to…say…the rings of Saturn. Everyone knows about them but few acknowledge their presence. Out of that, there are very few who understand their composition or reason for being. So, it’s not uncommon for me to have a weird look passed my way when I tell someone what [...]

Over the last few days, I have been working on a blog for www.dothanjazz.com called, Local Fav. It’s a new concept for the site where I take a local musician and write about what they are doing. This one was about a trumpet player named Jermaine English who just released a single called It’s Alright. [...]

A little more than a week ago, I agreed to do a little gig with a friend of mine. This friend, with whom I have been sharing the stage with at Wiregrass Church for six months or so, is the operator of the flagship location of a local fast food chicken joint called Goldfingers. He [...]

A lot of you know that, in an attempt to raise jazz awareness and build a scene in my area, I started a website (www.dothanjazz.com). With this, I have tried to contact all the cats I know or know of and worked on spreading the word so I can add info to the site and [...]

Pretty much the only good thing that came from my years in college and the everlasting mound of student loans is the people I met while serving my time. Don’t get me wrong, I worked hard and learned a lot in college but what continues to pay off day after day is not the A’s [...]

Obviously, the App selection is awesome. There REALLY is an App for everything. Yes, there are ones for leveling pictures and scanning barcodes or a compass or dinner reservations, etc, but there are several that are wonderful for the gigging musician who needs to keep track of expenses, income and mileage. So, I’m going to cover a couple that I use for business and convenience.

Ok, this is kind of an odd combination, I know. And, just prove how random it actually is, I will tell you this- I got the idea from an Olympics commercial. Anywho, pretty much the main focus of my short blogging career has been the mental side of being a musician, the problems that people [...]

Several years ago, I was a pit musician for a couple college theatre department productions. It was one of those situations where you meet new people and, with one or two of them, you just know you will be working together in the future. You know how it is, you really hit it off musically, [...]