Links
Local interest
Jam sessions
I've been spending some evenings lately at some of these local jams...
- The Redwood City Blues Jam at the Little Fox Theatre, now every Wednesday each month at 7pm
- The Old Princeton Landing in Princeton-by-the-Sea, home of a great blues jam every Sunday night, 7:30-11:30pm
- Domenico Wines Tasting Room in San Carlos has been hosting a terrific jazz jam session, the first Sunday each month from 4-7pm
Local artists
This list is by no means exhaustive, it's just some of the folks I've been meeting and/or hearing recently at some of the jams listed above... check them out!
- The Bluestate band featuring guitarist (and RWC jam master) Vince Caminiti
- Jazz vocalist Candice is fantastic!
- The Chris Cobb Band featuring Chris Cobb (well, duh) on guitar and vocals
- JB Davis, bassist for SugarShack, the Shieks of R&B, Kenny "Blue" Ray and others
- Daniel Castro
- Certified-The Band, featuring Les Rosenthal on harp
- The Stan Erhart Band featuring Stan Erhart (obviously) on guitar, vocals, and sax
- Steve Freund
- Greg Heumann, sax/harp/vocals for Bluestate
- Kenny "Blue" Ray
- South City Blues Band featuring John Lull on sax
- Volker Strifler
- Perry Thoorsell, extraordinary local jazz bassist
- Dave Workman
Music education
- The JazzSchool in Berkeley, CA
- The Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View, CA
- Stanford Jazz Workshop
- Jazz CampWEST
- The JazzMobile in NYC—free Saturday Jazz Workshops since 1969
- Jamey Aebersold's Summer Jazz Workshops
Recording, production, and making music
- MusicPlayer.com—A great resource for musicians and recordists, with a great set of discussion forums.
- HomeRecording.com—"This is the place you've been looking for: the knowledge center for anyone interested in recording and mixing their own music CDs and MP3s in their own home recording studio, or garage or basement." A particularly active set of discussion forums is available here.
- The Recording Project—a recording site spun off by some members of HomeRecording.com. "The Recording Project's vision is to provide an online community for those who cherish the art of audio recording. From 'newbies' to seasoned professionals, The Recording Project offers the platform on which to learn and share knowledge with other artists to globally hone our craft."
- NoWhere Radio.com—An music website devoted to helping promote independent musicians around the world through the web. I am posting some of my audio examples there...
Music sites—reviews, interviews, information
- Innerviews - music without borders—a terrific collection of interviews, reviews, etc. by Anil Prasad.
- Abstract Logix—webstore and informational blast about jazz/fusion/world music...
- All About Jazz, "produced by jazz fans for jazz fans... to provide information and opinion about jazz from the past, present, and future."
- AllMusic Guide
Music magazine sites
Some musical artists I particularly admire
- The official Beatles website
- A Jeff Beck Webpage—to my ears, Jeff Beck is The Master of taste and style in electric guitar music.
- Adrian Belew.net—the official Adrian Belew site -- a guitarist sui generis. For a year or so now he's been keeping a delightful blog too.
- Björk
- Jack Bruce— great bassist and singer of Cream, also a terrific songwriter, iconoclastic and unique.
- Kate Bush is back again after a long hiatus...
- John Coltrane
- Traneumentary—an interesting series of audio interviews with jazz musicians about Coltrane, his legacy, and his influence on their development as players...
- Cream—Clapton - Bruce - Baker. Say no more.
- Miles Ahead—a Miles Davis website—one of the most influential and innovative musicians and bandleaders ever.
- Robben Ford—gifted all-around guitar player, singer, songwriter... one of my all-time favorites.
- The official Allan Holdsworth website—"... his playing seethes."–Mike Resnicoff
- Elephant Talk—devoted to King Crimson and its pilot, Robert Fripp.
- Papabear Records—Tony Levin, bassist with King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, and many others.
- Pat Martino—the wonderfully great jazz guitarist.
- John McLaughlin
- Jaco Pastorius
- Jane Siberry... uh, I mean Issa—another supremely talented, impossible-to-pigeonhole artist.
- Chalkhills—a website and mailing list for the insanely great pop band XTC.
- The Real Frank Zappa Home Page—lots of info about Zappa and family.
- Joe Zawinul
