Talkin’ Blues, Bluegrass & More with Jimmy Herring

Check out my interview with Jimmy Herring in All About Jazz and also my First Impressions look at his latest album Subject To Change Without Notice (Abstract Logix, 2012)

New York Times on Bonnie Raitt, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi

 

Each week, Val Haller, the founder of the music Web site Valslist.com, matches music from her baby boom generation to music of her 20-something sons’ generation.

Val Haller has a nice piece in the New York Times that recommends the Tedeschi Trucks Band to Bonnie Raitt fans.  Her own website is worth visiting regularly, she helps “busy adults keep up with what’s happening in modern music.”  Also a big thank you to her for mentioning this site in her article.

Barbara Dennerlein in 3D playing B3

To see the above clip in 3D you will need a pair of these

This clip is part of my latest Talkin’ Blues interviews on All About Jazz, the Internet’s most popular jazz website.  Click on the photo below to see more clips.

Don’t Miss Jazz Near You

Don’t you hate it when you read a review of a great concert you didn’t know about and wish you would have seen? Now a really useful website delivers what’s happening in jazz near you:

Jazz Near You in a Nutshell

Jazz Near You is a network of 200 jazz websites and counting. We aggregate and deliver all kinds of content from events and venue listings to news, articles, photos to what’s hot in your area. It’s also a tremendous advertising opportunity for a venue or presenter to reach readers in their hometown.

How Jazz Near You Works

Once you land on jazznearyou.com, the website determines your location and presents you with local information. The goal is to keep you informed on who is playing where and when in your area. If you travel, you can change your city and show the destination city’s event guide.

Check it out

Favorite Photo of All Time

The After Hours Version

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

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Lenny Kravitz Crashes a Church Choir’s Gig

Lot of fun, and check out the young guitarist Mike Smeeton (playing in the clip above) with the Smeetone’s Family Blues Band (dad and his four sons)

Cool Tool for Musicians, Writers, Music Fans

I was reading about Google’s new Drive service and in the article they mentioned that unlike Google,  DropBox doesn’t “use” your files or information. So thanks to that I found Dropbox, it’s so practical and I’m really glad I found it.

Need to share some very large files with friends? Drop them in your “Public” folder on DropBox and send an invite to your friends. No more huge emails, CDs, or DVDs.

Make sure you don’t lose important files or photos.

There are so many possibilites, and of course if you have a laptop, PC, and a smart phone — no problem, you can access the same files from any of your devices — it’s great.

For me it is a great tool when I interview musicians and need to get music samples or photos.

Here’s their pitch – I give it a big thumbs up!

Your files, anywhere
Any file you save to Dropbox also instantly saves to your computers, phones, and the Dropbox website.

2GB of Dropbox for free, with subscriptions up to 100GB available.
Your files are always available from the secure Dropbox website.
Dropbox works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
Works even when offline. You always have your files, whether or not you have a connection.
Dropbox transfers just the parts of a file that change (not the whole thing).
Manually set bandwidth limits — Dropbox won’t hog your connection.

Simple sharing
Shared folders allow people to work together on the same projects and documents.

Invite friends, family or teammates to a folder. It’ll be as if you saved the folder to their computers.
See other people’s changes instantly.
Create photo galleries viewable by anyone you choose.
Send a link to any file in your Dropbox using your Public folder.

Dropbox mobile
Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry keep your Dropbox at hand, even on the go.

Bring your files with you when you’re on the go.
Edit files in your Dropbox from your phone.
Easily upload your photos and videos to Dropbox.
Share freely with family and friends.

Your stuff is safe
Dropbox protects your files without you needing to think about it.

Dropbox keeps a one-month history of your work.
Any changes can be undone, and files can be undeleted.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and AES-256 bit encryption.