I'm just about ready to fire up the business again.  The equipment itself has been used (by me exclusively) for personal recording projects and is in great condition, but it's time to take on some interesting client-centered recording projects.  And I will be ratcheting up the fine arts photography component as well.  I've had quite a bit of success in the past few years placing my jazz images in one of the oldest jazz publications in Europe - the London-based Jazz Journal.  So, here we go!!!

Newport Jazz - '09

Just returned from two days at the festival.  Great jazz as always but there was a troubling sense about the event's future: fewer people overall, no PBS coverage (as it has done in the past for later editing and airing).  Wein saved it this year - and my guess is that the talent all took a pay cut to give the project a chance.  Wonder what all this bodes for future Newports.

I took hundreds of jazz photos.  Hope to have the best of the lot up on my website soon. 

October 3rd jazz concert

Just received proofs from the Dana Center brochure prior to its going to press. Let's see if I can upload both the image and the accompanying copy for our fall gig there.

JAZZ ON AN AUTUMN EVENING

With The GleasonBrown Jazz Quintet

Another autumn happily means another evening of eminently listenable jazz music at the Saint Anselm College Dana Center with the college’s “house band,” the GleasonBrown Jazz Quintet. Ed Gleason and Monte Brown, members of the English and Philosophy departments, respectively, and keepers of the jazz flame on the Hilltop, celebrate their 10th year of jazz performances at the Dana Center by presenting their version of some of the more recognizable tunes from jazz’s vast repertoire. Monte on bass and vocals, Ed on sax, and special guest Chris Klaxton on trumpet are the frontliners.

Join us. And don’t be surprised if several of the evening’s song selections reflect jazz’s fascination with this wonderful transitional season: think of the adaptations of “Autumn Leaves,” “Autumn in New York,” “Early Autumn,” “Autumn Nocturne” and “September Song.”


The GleasonBrown Jazz Quintet is pleased to announce that, opening for them on this special occasion, will be Saint Anselm’s own Student Jazz Band led by Chris Klaxton.

Concert: Saturday, October 3 @ 8 pm

Audio on Website

Closer, closer, closer.  As you can see, my website is shaping up - fairly near to what I want it to be.  Some limited (introductory) audio will be added soon. Later, I hope to include audio clips of the various recording projects that have come out of the "Ethos East" component of Max Out Studios.

Logic Pro

For those of you who have inquired about the stages in my studio recording chain: I record through a 32 channel analogue board into my RADAR NYQUIST (using appropriate mic pres of course), then I simply export all tracks to a 16GB USB thumb drive and dump those tracks into the Logic Pro software of my iMAC.  That's where the fun begins!!

Thanks to Tim

Today is the first day my revised website is on-line.  Tim and I are working on adding the black and whites and the polychrome stuff - most of the images in these two categories from slides and negatives I've scanned in on my Nikon Super Coolscan 5000.  These images were taken during my Leica days.  When Leica lagged behind in THE BIG MOVE over to digital, I "Canonized" all my equipment.  I do miss the challenge of 35mm shooting; I don't miss the darkroom labours.

Give me two weeks and all three categories of photos will be up.

Thanks again, Tim.

Welcome

Beware: novice blogger ahead.  

I do hope that, in the entries that follow, I can generate the sort of discussion that will benefit both blogger and bloggee.  My interests begin with music-making and recording ... and photography, but they subdivide and multiply very quickly, so we'll have to see where this blogging thing takes us.  ("See you soon," he said blogfully.)