Friends + Blog Roll
Everybody has a website—if they don't, they probably will in the near future. Since I always have trouble remembering where to find my friends all across the Internet, I thought I'd link to them here — great musicians, artists, and peers!
Check them out:
- Matt Aucoin - poet, assistant conductor at the Met (fall '12), MacArthur Fellow (ca. fall '18)
- Robin Baytas - "flat rides n guacamole" (per Instagram profile, ca. Oct 2018)
- Ken Beason - looking for saxophone maintenance?
- Nathan Bellott - consummate altoist, moonlights as a coffee wizard
- Benny Benack III - trumpet/vocals
- Stephen Boegehold - drums/Polyfold Collectivist
- Patricia Brennan - virtuosic mallet specialist
- Malcolm Campbell - physics/chem whiz, pianist of all trades
- Eesha Dave - gluten-free recipes for foodies!
- Jasper Dütz - multi-instrumentalist, gamer, and composer
- The O'Farrill Brothers - aka Adam + Zack (old brothers' page now... not theirs)
- Maria Grand - interdisciplinary artist, saxophonist, activist
- Andrew Hadro - low-reeds specialist, reed-cut expert
- Nick Hempton - long known to me only as "the Smalls guy," witty saxophonist
- Dor Herskovits - same great drummer (Earprint et al.), new great website
- Matt Honor - drummer, sauce maniac, doesn't have a webpage
- Terry Hsieh - my trombone-playing brother across the globe
- Daryl Johns - out there doing it
- Andrew Katzenstein - contributor at The New York Review of Books, deep thinker
- Kevin Laskey - fellow Montgomery High School grad, recent Princeton U. grad, UPenn composition Ph.D candidate, walking music encyclopedia
- Josh Levine - bassist, singer, children's music writer, and busking compatriot
- Chad Lefkowitz-Brown - tenorist around the web/globe
- Christian Li - one of the best pianists I know, "promo-phobe"
- Ryan Lucht aka Camino 84 - drummer turned DJ from my neck of the woods
- Lily Min - who introduced me to jazz, taught me to write.
- Jeff McGregor - saxophonist & prolific transcriber
- Lesley Mok - drummer-composer and educator
- Chase Morrin - one bad cat. legendary hat-wearer
- Sam Neufeld - NY trumpeter and chess enthusiast
- Curtis Nowosad - consummate drummer and mountain-climber
- Hery Paz - shape-shifting tenorist, abstract painter, DIY mouthpiece explorer
- Tree Palmedo - trumpeting and writing, all in one!
- Connor Parks - warmest drummer, wearer of the yellow jacket
- Bryan Qu - conceptualist & composer-improvisor (no website, yet)
- Jacob Shulman - single-reed magus, math tutor for hire
- Bill Singer - the only NYC sax repair tech for me (recommended 5000%)
- Jennifer Soong - poet and artist: her blog, "Of Silverfish," is on literature
- Dana Saul - composer, pianist, strategic interpolator
- Dayeon Seok - elite drummer-composer, master viber
- Andrew Schiller - Brooklyn-based bassist, composer of very catchy songs
- Walter Stinson - doesn't have a webpage, but a wonderful guy & bassist nonetheless
- Yuhan Su - vibrant vibra-harpist and cat enthusiast
- Juanma Trujillo - plays a mean guitar, composes, and knows sound engineering
- Kalia Vandever - the trombonist and mutual website admirers!
- Anna Webber - sui generis composer-saxophonist-flutist
- Isaac Wilson - like Christian above, no website + one of the best pianists I know
- Simón Willson - bassist extraordinaire, and don't forget the acute accent (not related to Isaac)
- Jeonglim Yang - bassist, the rock of Mute
- Conway Yao - the man, the legend
- Xiongguan Zhang - Shanghai-based guitarist and fellow NEC alum
- Diane J. Zhou - visual art from neon dreams and wonderland. She designed the banner for this site, and yes, she takes commissions.
- endectomorph music - the home of Great On Paper and other related ventures
- Pyroclastic Records - independent NYC improvised music label (by Kris Davis)
There are many to whom I am grateful for guidance, inspiration, and wisdom (this is an incomplete list, for a variety of reasons):
And the obligatory blog roll. Here are some of the blogs I follow:
- StuffSax - annals of mouthpiece history, treasure trove for DIY-phonists
- Jazz Speaks — The official blog of The Jazz Gallery, a nonprofit jazz cultural center in NYC [full disclosure: I edited this]
- Do the Math — Ethan Iverson, of the Bad Plus, the best jazz blog on the Internet
- A Blog Supreme — Patrick Jarenwattananon, the jazz blog of National Public Radio (RIP)
- JazzTruth — George Colligan, top-flight jazz pianist and blogger
- Jazzblog — Peter Hum, excellent jazz blog for the Ottawa Citizen
- Soprano Sax Talk — Sam Newsome's on soprano saxophonicism and art in general
- Played Twice — Martin Porter, NY-based pianist and total jazz nerd (in the best way)
- Settled in Shipping — Pianist David Ryshpan, notes from Toronto!
- Cereal Music — Hilarious and heartbreaking on classical music from Ben Phelps
- Mark Polishook — Thoughtful ideas on jazz piano and improvisation in general
- Kurt Ellenberger — Essays on jazz and culture at "Also Sprach FraKathustra"
- Jazz: The Music of Unemployment — Composer/writer Andrew Durkin's thoughts on jazz and its relationship to the outside world. Good stuff.
- Dan Tepfer's blog - Explorations in technology, art
- Stuff Sax - are you a saxophone nerd? How much of a sax nerd are you really?
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