http://jamesdanderfer.com jazz musician James Danderfer recordings, images, and media Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:58:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! First of all, let me thank everyone who contributed comments and ideas to last weeks SMNP. Much appreciated, and keep'em coming! No one offered a definitive answer on how best to release a new recording (so that it might at ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/03/learning-example-summer/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday (Morning) News Post! For all those who have YouTubed me in the past, and I know there are many of you, the wait is over. I'm finally here on YouTube now! Boo-yeah! Now, for the rest of you, who are wondering why ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/02/danderfans-monetizing-music/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! Readers, I'm a hypocrite. I was reminded of this fact last week while talking to an undergrad jazz student here at McGill University. He was really excited about a course he was taking, one that has just this ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/02/music-marketing-101/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! Readers, this has been one exciting week! Let me tell ya,... wow! It's just,... I mean, geez,...things are just rocketing ahead around here as I,...um... break new ground on, em... this cool new thing that you'll, um,... I ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/02/2010-olympic-games/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! I'm in the thick of it now folks, donate your fans, bring me your ice-packs, yours truly is a hot jazz composing/arranging machine and I'm burnin' up! Specifically, writing hot jazz for the 10-piece "Chamber Jazz ensemble" at McGill ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/02/form-melody-hotness/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! This week it really is all about me... Discipline and the Schedule There's nothing quite like starting your week with a clenched fist and the word "ffffffuuck!!" And so it was that I began my 2nd week of disciplined scheduling when ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/01/state-of-danderfer/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! As of last Tuesday I'm back in Montreal, and it feels pretty damn good to be in my own place again! Don't get me wrong, I love going home and spending time with family and friends of course, there's ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/01/clint-eastwood/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! It is in fact Friday evening as I write this SMNP, from the Patricia Hotel (Vancouver) where CBC Radio will soon host their musical event in honour of the late great Jelly Roll Morton who graced this same venue back ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/01/cbc-suite-finished/ Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! First off, thanks to everyone who made it out to The Cellar last weekend for my "Party Like It's 1929!" trio show. The band had a blast, the crowd was great, and I came one step closer to familiarity ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/01/2010-resolutions/ Hello, good morning, Happy New Year! and welcome to the Saturday Morning News Post! Readers, I'm exhausted. It's currently 3am and I've just finished the Jelly Roll Morton Suite,... Holy Hell that was a lot of work. That wasn't no ordinary jazz composition, that was basicly a 5-part, through-composed ... http://jamesdanderfer.com/2010/01/last-minute-composin/