Sunday, June 20, 2010

Django in June - Joscho Stephan

Attended a couple of workshops at Django in June in Northampton this weekend, including a couple of classes taught by German gypsy jazz guitarist Joscho Stephan, who has monster chops and comes across as an unusually smart, savvy and frank person. Stephan put on a monster performance at the concluding concert Saturday night.

He was quite proud that one of his videos had been viewed over 200,00 times, and commented on what a boost the Internet has been to his career - CD sales down, concert invites up! I think this is the vid he was referring to.

Thanks to my sister Susan, who signed me up for this event. Thanks Susan! And thanks to a not-to-be-named federal district court judge in Boston for deferring a trial scheduled to start on Monday, so I could get away for a day.


Friday, May 14, 2010

Denny Zeitlin Taling About Jazz Pianists



And his new solo album, Precipice.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Pat Metheny Orchestrion Video

This album is amazing, and the video shows how he does it, sort of. Wow ....




More here. Album here.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Saturday, January 02, 2010