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Anza-Borrego with Alex Nowitz

After an excellent concert last night, had a great time today…Alex Nowitz and I had breakfast with Bonnie Wright at Ranchos and then headed off for a day of driving through the desert…beautiful weather…ended up having …

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Boise: Random Shots from B-CIMF 2011

(Click any image to enlarge) First day there, Krispen Hartung, Bob Sterling, Gregory Taylor and Mark Taylor and I went to The Modern…once a year the hotel donates all the rooms to artists and they install …

Boise Creative and Improvised Music Festival 2011: Day 2

Colter Frazier and Mark Soden(Click any image to enlarge) Ted Killian and Bob Sterling Krispen Hartung and Jeff “Mr. Serious” Kaiser Jim Connolly and Jeff Kaiser Jeff and Gregory Taylor Jeff and Rob Wallace Gregory Taylor …

Dangers of asking a stranger to take your photograph

Steuart Liebig, Jeff Kaiser, Kris Tiner at Influx Cafe Coffee Pre-Kris Tiner Quintet gig…I asked a guy to take our pic, every one had his finger in it and was blurry. Every one. That IS a …

Chess and The Mouth Harp…

Mig Greengard over at The Daily Dirt (a chess blog) was researching the lesser-known chess Grandmaster Vladimir Potkin. (In Greengard’s words, “The 29-year-old Russian is better known for not being better known.”) Along the way, he …

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Equalizers and Pro Tools 9

Recently I switched to Pro Tools 9 as my main DAW (from Digital Performer). There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is I like it better. I also find myself using the …

Kaiser, McNalley, Byrnes Recording Session

Had a VERY enjoyable recording session today, a little different: all acoustic! Tom McNalley on steel string and resonator guitar, Ted Byrnes on drums/percussion and I played Bb trumpet, quartertone trumpet and flugelhorn. Ben Power came …

RIP, Pinetop…

A student last quarter in my Blues class met and spent some time with Pinetop in Austin, Texas…she brought me back an autographed CD and a verbal invitation to his 100th birthday party, which he was …