“Comin Home Baby” Live with Wim Dijkgraaf, 29 October 2014
I’ve known Dutch-born harmonica virtuoso and composer Wim Dijkgraaf since the late 1990s. Wim now lives in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and I joined up with him there at Gartner’s Symposium ITXPO conference to perform this duet on Ben Tucker’s “Comin Home Baby” in front of…
Why We Make Big Cool Sounds for Harp Players: History is On Our Side
There was a recent discussion on Harp-L of FX, which I found revealing of all sorts of things. It’s chronicled here, and be warned: gotta lotta words. (The boldface emphases I put on certain lines in that discussion were added by me, and were not…
In the Studio: Keepers of the Streak
I did a session earlier this week with Brian Keane, a composer/producer I’ve worked with on a number of occasions, for a TV movie titled “Keepers of the Streak”, which is about four photographers in their 70s/80s who’ve photographed every Superbowl from the start. (The…
RIP Jack Bruce
Harp Keys and Tunings for My Recorded Solo Repertoire
I’ve had a few requests recently for the harmonica keys and tunings that I used to record the pieces on my CDs “The Act of Being Free in One Act” and “The Second Act of Free Being.” So here, for your pondering pleasure, is a…
The Gartner Symposium/ITXpo CIO Harmonica Orchestra, October 2014
Some of my readers know that I have a career as an analyst at Gartner, Inc., the world’s largest IT advisory services company. We just held our flagship conference, Symposium/IT Expo, in Orlando, FL, where I delivered the keynote presentation to an audience of about…
So When Will Digitech Fix Nexus, not to mention the rest of their software?
Digitech’s RP360 and RP360XP have been on the market for about six months now. The box still sounds great, and the software still sucks.
Hendrik Meurkens’s “Junity” is in the top 15 on the jazz charts!
Hendrik Meurkens is one of our favorite jazz harmonica players, so we were delighted when we got this message from him: My new CD JUNITY, an album very different from the previous Brazilian-tinged releases, has been out for a couple of months and received great…
“Me and the Devil” by Ed Abbiatti/Chris Cacavas rated 5 stars by R2!
I was informed this morning that the UK-based mag Rock n’ Reel (R2 for short) has rated “Me and the Devil” by Chris Cacavas (formerly of Green on Red) and Ed Abbiatti 5 stars, and called it “a work of genius.” For those who haven’t…
The latest RP360/360XP patch set is up and running!
We’ve updated our version 18 patch set for the Digitech RP360XP to include a few new patches and some needed adjustments to the existing patches. Does it sound great? Sheesh. It sounds great. We’ve been delighted recently by the comments we’ve received on this set….
