Was a volunteer again with the Des Moines Civic Music Association at the Byron Stripling Quartet Show last Friday night. Got to wear my spankin’ cute silk red tie even! Trumpet virtuoso and smooth vocalist, Byron Stripling, and the band amazed me with both jazz classics and fresh contemporary jazz compilations! Byron’s ability on the [...]

I’ve been testing all the various cd ripper packages on my Debian Lenny Distro of Linux but none of them would rip to mp3′s. They would rip ok to OGG files, but I can’t play those on my cellphone’s mp3 player. As you know from my other tutorial, that it’s a breeze to load your [...]

Ok, so you’ve got one of those cellphones that can play music right – just like I do. But paying $2.99 PER SONG to order it from Verizon (or other provider) seems steep and you already have a legal purchased version of the song on your computer. Today we are going to learn how to [...]

I was a volunteer last night at the Civic Music Association‘s presentation of John Pizzarelli at the Sheslow Auditorium on the campus of Drake University, downtown Des Moines. Check out some of John’s groovy swing sound, soft vocals and lose your mind guitar playing with the links below to YouTube videos: After You’ve Gone – [...]