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Here’s a beefy post with no pictures. Mostly comprised of news. Really, really good news!

First, about my last post – the one about me getting national exposure for my work – if you want to listen to the Terence Blanchard show, you need Real Player, which is free. Also, there are two “listen now” links on this web page. The first is the University of Michigan Jazz Band, which is just “OK”. The second link is actually the Terence Blanchard portion of the show. If you’re into jazz in any way, it’s worth a listen. FYI.

Second, Stacy passed the Oregon Bar exam!! Hooray!!

Third, I now work part time at a venue-slash-recording studio called “Mississippi Studios” here in Portland. You can check out our website here. Pretty cool. I’m a jack of all trades at this small business (studio recording work, front of house sound reinforcement, tending bar, production manager, etc…) …it’s a great place.

Fourth, Portland was just written up in Slate. Check it out here.

Told you it was beefy!

OK, I just HAD to post this. I wasn’t certain when this would actually get published, but check it out! David Lau (Grammy Award winning engineer/producer/owner of Brookwood Studio) and I were involved in the recording of this show at the wonderful Power Center in Ann Arbor Michigan. Credits are at the bottom of this page.

It was a great night, great show. Give it a listen!

One other shout out: Terence (and Wynton, and jazz & orchestral players all over the country) uses David Monette trumpets excusively. I’ve had the pleasure to meet Dave, whose factory moved from Chicago to Portland back in the late 90s. Great guy, a remarkable genius. Now all I have to figure out is how to afford one of his $10,000 horns! (Yes, you read the number of zeros correctly… )

One of the attractions to living in Portland is proximity. To mountains, to the Pacific Ocean, to the music scene, to great restaurants, you get the picture. “If you wanted to”, they said, “you could ski Mt. Hood in the morning and be sunbathing on the coast in the afternoon”. Great in theory – of course, I’m gonna need to find out if it’s real.

There is a relic from the age of beautiful public works called Timberline Lodge near the mid-point of Mt. Hood. I took the above photo while sitting at The Ramshead Bar in said lodge.

Now don’t get me wrong (more…)

OK, now this is crazy. Seattle Times picked up a story about a couple friends of mine from Ypsilanti!

Wow. Just had to post it. Cool story, and short, go check it out.

A couple of weekends ago, I had a really fun experience. Perhaps you can relate…you’re watching a movie, and enjoying it. You hear the soundtrack, and think to yourself, “why do I know this music?!” In my case, the movie was Little Miss Sunshine, and the soundtrack music was largely written by a band called DeVotchka (or their lead singer, Nick Urata). It was not all that long ago that I blogged about seeing an unusual act at Bonnaroo…

Ok, so it was 7, almost 8 months ago. Who’s counting (more…)