Audio / Music / Tech

2009-07-21T14:04:00.001-04:00

Music review - Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey http://is.gd/1GDlV

2009-07-17T16:02:00.001-04:00

Endeavor crew now aboard the ISS...13 people onboard. Watch on NTV www.nasa.gov/ntv

2009-07-17T14:34:00.001-04:00

Next Endeavor/ISS event: hatch opening and welcome ceremony @ 15:43 EDT Watch on NTV http://ping.fm/xMx5l

2009-07-17T14:12:00.001-04:00

RT @timjennion Offbeat lawsuit attemps to link Apple to Italian mafia http://ping.fm/tNczz

2009-07-17T14:05:00.001-04:00

NYC police step up hotel security after Jakarta blasts http://ping.fm/I3GUY

2009-07-17T13:28:00.001-04:00

Endeavor and ISS with the Earth as a backdrop...wow

2009-07-17T13:25:00.001-04:00

Endeavor and ISS with the Earth as a backdrop...wow

2009-07-17T13:19:00.001-04:00

ISS and Endeavor against a backdrop of the Earth...wow

2009-07-17T12:48:00.001-04:00

Awesome views on NASA TV of Endeavor and the ISS as they prepare to dock http://ping.fm/uhFqw

2009-07-17T12:23:00.001-04:00

RT @n8tfd @John_Gumm_At_12I knew it all along. Cincinnati is finally cool says the NY Times: http://is.gd/1Ci2P

2009-07-17T11:17:00.001-04:00

Watching Nasa TV...getting ready for TI burn & shuttle/ISS docking at 13:55 EDT http://ping.fm/WLMyd

2009-07-17T10:35:00.001-04:00

My new alarm clock...!?! http://ping.fm/vX7as Sorry Ryan, had to.

2009-07-16T21:27:00.001-04:00

Stephen Colbert demands to be named Worst Person in the World by Keith Olbermann http://ping.fm/XGBBR

2009-07-16T01:34:00.001-04:00

New previously-unreleased video of Michael Jackson's 1984 hair fire http://ping.fm/HSzBN

2009-07-15T22:31:00.001-04:00

Watch NASA TV http://ping.fm/oSX1J

2009-07-15T22:16:00.001-04:00

BREAKING: Detroit - 9 Mile overpass COLLAPSED at I-75 Massive Fire in Hazel Park http://bit.ly/6TDLU . [VIDEO + PHOTOS]

2009-07-15T21:50:00.001-04:00

Debris strikes Endeavor during lift-off http://ping.fm/8yxkc Makes me wonder how we actually got to the moon in 1969..

2009-07-15T20:28:00.001-04:00

Franklin police evacuate elementary school due to grenade threat http://ping.fm/nPoJb

2009-07-15T18:12:00.001-04:00

Space shuttle finally takes off http://ping.fm/qnRBi

2009-07-15T16:16:00.001-04:00

Ruling: Athlete's cocaine use inadvertent http://ping.fm/R1jzU

2009-07-15T01:30:00.001-04:00

Linux shell script for updating Ping.fm http://ping.fm/fJhNa

2009-07-15T00:34:00.001-04:00

Pullin' a Palin - now in the Urban Dictionary http://ping.fm/bwMLC

2009-07-14T18:01:00.001-04:00

Ohio churches will sue to block slots http://ping.fm/WqIY5

2009-07-14T15:11:00.001-04:00

Test

2009-07-14T13:04:00.001-04:00

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll http://ping.fm/ZD9Yz An alternative history of American popular music

2009-07-14T12:15:00.001-04:00

Sarah Palin -- governor extraordinaire -- criticizes Obama on energy plan. http://ping.fm/zw9uu

2009-07-14T11:34:00.001-04:00

The piano is now in tune!

2009-07-10T20:12:00.001-04:00

Terry's Turf Club TONIGHT 10:30-1:30

2009-07-10T18:01:00.001-04:00

Bush administration post-Sept. 11 surveillance went deeper than wiretapping http://ping.fm/A0tny

2009-07-09T21:10:00.001-04:00

20 million dollar deficit and Cincinnati's arguing about MJ http://ping.fm/7JELB

2009-07-09T20:59:00.001-04:00

Cincinnati faces a 0 million deficit, and they're arguing about whether to honor MJ http://ping.fm/pCseQ

2009-07-07T13:33:00.001-04:00

New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth http://ping.fm/KFfju

2009-07-03T20:52:00.001-04:00

Tasting the rainbow... And driving home from gig in Cbus

2009-06-30T22:13:00.003-04:00

Streetcar measure to appear on ballot http://ping.fm/5o7To (I'll be voting against)

2009-06-30T22:13:00.001-04:00

Plan could merge Police and Sheriff's Departments http://ping.fm/KXS1D

2009-06-27T17:16:00.001-04:00

Just worked Virgin Islands and Hawaii on 15m!

2009-06-27T11:36:00.001-04:00

It's Field Day! http://ping.fm/KJbvX

2009-06-26T21:33:00.001-04:00

Badin, Fenwick get financial boost from archdiocese http://ping.fm/lVar8

2009-06-26T19:14:00.001-04:00

Are you a happy number? http://ping.fm/IVNyJ

2009-06-25T19:07:00.001-04:00

Biting my tongue on a lot of the MJ comments I'm reading...

2009-06-24T21:34:00.001-04:00

Scientists tour Creation Museum http://ping.fm/QXhIX

2009-05-26T20:00:00.001-04:00

House In 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' On The Market http://ping.fm/b0wwF

2009-05-26T19:17:00.001-04:00

Unemployment at its best.

2009-05-26T02:26:00.001-04:00

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2009-05-23T22:19:00.001-04:00

Playing @ Terry's Turf Club 10:30-1:30

2009-05-20T15:45:00.001-04:00

My new favorite Pandora station: Carlo Gesualdo Radio

2009-05-19T16:18:00.001-04:00

Astronauts Let Go of Refurbished Hubble http://ping.fm/nPOxP

2009-05-19T00:33:00.001-04:00

“Annie Hall,” the Oscar-winning film directed by Woody Allen, earned the director 5 million on Monday morning, and it was not from DVD sales. http://ping.fm/cANN0

2009-05-19T00:32:00.001-04:00

“Annie Hall,” the Oscar-winning film directed by Woody Allen, earned the director million on Monday morning, and it was not from DVD sales. http://ping.fm/4QJQA

2009-05-16T09:50:00.001-04:00

Going to the Dayton Hamvention www.hamvention.org

2009-05-15T21:08:00.001-04:00

Playing @ Symmes Tavern in Fairfield until midnight

2009-05-13T20:42:00.001-04:00

Hopefully the wet floor sign will help me in court

2009-05-11T13:50:00.001-04:00

Apple: No Jesus on the iPhone http://ping.fm/cN5mg

2009-05-09T12:37:00.001-04:00

Green Line collision injures 49 http://ping.fm/WKJCu (Officials say trolley driver was sending text message)

2009-05-08T02:40:00.001-04:00

Freshman Enrollment Up Almost 15 Percent At UC http://ping.fm/bwHiG

2009-05-06T16:29:00.001-04:00

Flying Pig Marathon photos http://ping.fm/ROhd2

2009-05-04T05:59:00.001-04:00

'I'm not worried about the flu,' said John Landry, 28, of Houston. 'I am regularly taking beer. They tell you lots of fluid, right? And besides, it's antiseptic.' http://ping.fm/ivmeY

2009-05-02T17:21:00.001-04:00

Cincinnati Superhero Patrols Streets Fighting Crime http://ping.fm/Xh3vD I'm not sure what to make of this...

2009-04-29T19:14:00.001-04:00

Why Most Twitter Users Give Up http://ping.fm/vdWJ3

2009-04-28T18:02:00.001-04:00

Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Fine for 'Fleeting Expletives' http://ping.fm/U9cGQ

2009-04-28T04:12:00.001-04:00

Played tonight at Stanley's with Wade Baker (trumpet player). Trio - trumpet, keys, drums.

2009-04-28T03:48:00.001-04:00

68 degrees outside is perfect...

2009-04-28T03:08:00.001-04:00

Testing shell script from remote ssh connection

2009-04-28T03:01:00.001-04:00

Test to blogger

2009-03-15T22:48:00.001-04:00

Watching NASA TV http://ping.fm/jX7oD

2009-03-14T19:00:00.001-04:00

iPod touch—not lies—sets kid's pants on fire; parents sue http://ping.fm/3KdI3

2009-03-10T17:27:00.001-04:00

Apple rejects Twitter app because there's swearing on the Internet http://www.macworld.com/article/139316/2009/03/tweetie_rejection.html I @#$%^&in' love Apple!

2009-03-05T00:57:00.001-05:00

People harmed by medicines can sue, court rules http://ping.fm/I2mlT

2009-03-04T17:43:00.001-05:00

Ask the Experts: Can Babies Be Made-to-Order? http://ping.fm/943YA Thoughts??!

2009-03-02T23:32:00.001-05:00

Dude in fat suit beats Jonas Brothers in weekend box-office race http://ping.fm/ulGSJ (last time I'll post this! ha!)

2009-03-01T21:01:00.001-05:00

Jonas Brothers hit flat note at box office http://ping.fm/r6iGO

2009-03-01T12:18:00.001-05:00

Ticket sales of the band’s new concert movie, “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Experience,” is lower than expected http://ping.fm/3Wthn

2009-02-26T22:21:00.001-05:00

Hands on: uberVU, an interactive inbox for the conversation http://ping.fm/q8mhO

2009-02-26T04:36:00.001-05:00

Obamas praise Stevie Wonder at White House concert http://ping.fm/NNLmD

2009-02-25T18:04:00.001-05:00

Octo-Mom may lose kids http://ping.fm/7gl0s and gain "modeling" contract http://ping.fm/N9Y6o

2009-02-25T14:48:00.001-05:00

Watch Out iTunes, Artists Are Wising Up http://ping.fm/EomO4

2009-02-24T18:33:00.001-05:00

NASA Satellite Crashes Back to Earth http://ping.fm/DcEy4

2009-02-23T17:18:00.001-05:00

Sky Show Tonight: Green "Two-Tailed" Comet Arrives http://ping.fm/cjv17

2009-02-21T18:04:00.001-05:00

Obama more popular than Jesus, Ganhdi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (and hopefully Britney Spears) http://ping.fm/0676k

2009-02-21T00:51:00.001-05:00

Most iPhone users never use an app after the first download http://ping.fm/2WylW

2009-02-18T03:04:00.001-05:00

Fb reverts to old terms of service, working on new version “everybody can understand” http://ping.fm/f94D5

2009-02-16T15:19:00.001-05:00

Concern over new Facebook content rules http://ping.fm/w2BHz

2009-02-15T20:11:00.001-05:00

$850 Billion, 1588 pages, and counting... somebody needs to read it! http://ping.fm/VXuLm

2009-02-14T17:36:00.001-05:00

Playing @ Terry's Turf Club (Eastern Ave.) tonight 10:30-1:30. Best burger and funky jazz in town!

2009-02-12T10:45:00.001-05:00

About to play my first professional orchestra gig...on melodica! With Louisville Orchestra.

2009-02-07T10:19:00.001-05:00

After losing his entire life's savings to disgraced fund manager Bernard Madoff, 90-year-old Ian Thiermann abandoned retirement and now works the aisles of a grocery store to make ends meet. http://ping.fm/dGyPx

2009-02-05T05:18:00.001-05:00

Ever wonder what a gallon of silicone would do for you? http://ping.fm/BPTyk

2009-02-03T16:27:00.001-05:00

50 years ago, the music died. http://ping.fm/caff9

2009-02-03T05:01:00.001-05:00

“You think we’ve never arrested somebody that’s made national media? … We deal with the Bengals all the time,” said the officer. http://ping.fm/l2GuK

2009-02-02T05:04:00.001-05:00

Lukas Foss dies at 86 http://ping.fm/cPLoX

2009-01-23T18:09:00.001-05:00

What do Milli Vanilli, Ashlee Simpson, Yo-Yo Ma, and Itzhak Perlman have in common? http://ping.fm/fjTPJ

2009-01-22T17:56:00.001-05:00

Doing laundry and learning UML http://ping.fm/50Zzh

2009-01-22T14:41:00.001-05:00

Working on a music theory curriculum

2009-01-21T22:30:00.001-05:00

making machines

2009-01-21T20:27:00.001-05:00

Facts behind Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign http://ping.fm/B62cT

2009-01-21T19:27:00.001-05:00

Be what you wish, be what you believe. http://ping.fm/uJxjH

2009-01-20T23:50:00.001-05:00

Presidential Trivia http://ping.fm/ZoRzt

2009-01-20T22:17:00.001-05:00

Big Day Fizzles at the Freedom Center http://ping.fm/6sjDx

Jazz Today - Mortally Wounded? pt.2

2008-04-25T09:18:00.006-04:00

Another leading cause of jazz fatal wounding is due in large part to jazz musicians themselves. Older cats on the scene today (at least in Ohio) do not hire and encourage younger musicians they way used to. Longtime veterans of the scene are protective and stand-offish of their gigs, and tend to use only older musicians, even when there may be an up and coming young player who can hang, but needs experience one only gets from playing with seasoned musicians. As a result, many young cats have to play with their peers all the time, never having to rise to the occasion or be pushed outside of their comfort zone, and its something like the blind leading the blind. The market has becomes flooded with young mediocre musicians who lack a personal tradition with music, and who see jazz only through the eyes of academia.

There is an even larger problem however, and it relates to all jazz musicians young and old; jazz has lost touch with people. Jazz today, especially at the local level, is lacking both in originality and its ability to relate to the common person. Now, when I say originality I do not simply mean that we have a lot of sound alikes (though we most certainly do!), but ensembles themselves are bland and disengaging. I cannot tell you how sick I am of hearing a whole set of tunes played as such: head-solo-trade-head out. This format on every tune may be fun for the players in the group, but it is boring and offers no surprises for the listener. If you're going to do a common tune, find a new angle and don't just play it the same old mediocre way.

Then there is the choice of material - the holy triumvirate of standards, be-bop, and latin tunes. This may shock some of you, but there are more types of tunes than just these 3, yet with few exceptions, when you go out to hear a "jazz" group, this is what you hear. Not only that, but the same 20 tunes from each style are played over and over and over. Musicians should keep in mind that they provide as service FOR OTHER PEOPLE - if you're playing only for yourself then invite some friends over to jam and quit complaining about how you have no gigs. If you're trying to relate to an audience in their 30-50's, you probably shouldn't play a whole set of tunes from 1942. There is a wealth of tunes from the last 3 decades that can be mined for something challenging to the musician and appealing to the listener, but it requires that you do more than bring a fake book to the gig.

Jazz Today - Mortally Wounded? pt.1

2008-04-24T11:17:00.005-04:00

The expression "jazz is dead" is thrown around a lot these days, a sentiment I happen to agree with, but how did a music once such a vibrant and living part of american culture lose its relevance, its artistry, and thus, its life?

As with all problems, the blame does not rest with one individual or one institution, but rather a combination of factors contributing to the deterioration of the whole. Let's begin with the institutionalization in universities, a factor most frequently blamed for the demise of jazz. One would think that the liberalizing environment of a college campus would help invigorate jazz, but in fact the opposite is true - jazz has been stifled. The problem is that universities have developed a standard jazz curriculum that all students must follow, while the music itself defies standardization! It must be remembered that jazz is art, and as such cannot simply be broken down in terms of mere mechanics - technique is only a means to an end. Creating something beautiful, personal, and expressive should be the ultimate goal, not executing a perfect major scale at lightening speed.

The way jazz is being taught, en-mass, is also a problem. Jazz has traditionally been "taught" in a more personal, apprentice-ship type of program, where a student comes under the tutelage of a master (who's style the student admires) who passes on his personal knowledge and musical colloquialisms. Over years of study and practice, the student absorbs the master's approach intuitively and is encouraged to inject and develop his own style accordingly. This is why you can trace the styles of say, Clifford Brown, through Lee Morgan, onto Freddie Hubbard, but they don't sound exactly alike. Students at universities today are told to read books and charts, practice scales and written exercises, many of which have little to do with what the student is interested in, while spending perhaps as little as one hour a week with their teacher. As a result, many students sound like they are reciting exercises, lacking any traces of creativity or a personal/regional style.