OMG I'm WRITING A BLOG POST

Hello everybody!!!!

I am so very happy to be back!!!!!!

Whoo!!!!

Well, not even a month too late, here I am, ready to roll! OK, well my first post will be up in a bit!

Official Notice: Hiatus

As previously mentioned, the blog will be on a temporary hiatus until late November, just because I am so busy.

I will be stopping in for little tidbits here and there, but not much of anything. To make sure you find out when I stop in, and when we are re-opened, subscribe via RSS or Email. Subscription links are to the right on the sidebar.

In the mean time, please support the blog by continuing to tell others, link to the blog, buy music via the iTunes links, listen to the All Vinyl Jazz Podcast, use the jazz search and blog toolbar at http://freewebs.com/jazztools , and support the equipment repair fund located at the last AVJP post. (See the tags to find it or google All Vinyl Jazz Podcast Ep. 2 Shaft Funk. that should work...)

I'll be back soon. I promise!

Have fun, and Take the 'A' Trane. (lol! i'm proud of myself. :p)

See you all then.

Techno Jazz

Woot! Techno Jazz!

Umm... first of all, sorry, sorry sorry sorry for the loooooooong delay between posts. I feel really bad about keeping you all on edge, hitting refresh 55 times waiting for my wisdom!

OK, No.

(ahahaha! get it? it's like OK, Go only it's OK, No. ahahaha! alternative music reference)

Anyways, due to how busy I am (trust me, I am REALLY busy.) I will be putting the blog on an official hiatus until mid to late november when I will resume with some more regular stuff.

So what shall you do? SUBSCRIBE! Via RSS, Via Email so you know when I'm back or when I make surprise appearances!

Anyways, I'll officially announce that later. Here's todays post:


So in helping an acquaintance of mine develop his newfound interest in jazz, I tried to find him some Techno-jazz. (cuz that's what he listens to.)

First thing that came to mind for me was Christian Prommer's Drumlesson. Now, in all honesty, this is just jazz covers of some club/house songs. Personally, I have never listened to the album.

Has anybody? Leave a comment.

So I dug deeper and found some other guys.

OK, OTHER people dug deeper. (There is an upside to frequenting AAJ!)

Kyle Rowland (http://music.download.com/kylerowland/3600-8481_32-100603294.html) is really doing some techno stuff with jazz instrumentals. He was praised by several posters on the thread, so I decided to go check him out. I wasn't totally into what he's doing, but he's got some good stuff going. My favorite of the 4 tracks at the above link is Idea 3. The others are just a bit... cheesy for me. I think you could go alot deeper with this idea.

They also suggested Nils Petter Molvaer. This guy is a new favorite of mine. For the Techno Jazz stuff, check out his album Khmer . But what i found even more beautiful is his album ER. It's deep thinking, with a Miles Davis ambiance and Steve Reich space and deepness.

Beautiful. I'm buying it.

Well, i'm running out of time! (told you I was busy!) Hope you enjoyed one of your last bits of me for a while.

A reminder to BUY THROUGH MY ITUNES LINKS IF YOU WANT TO BUY THE ALBUMS/SONGS MENTIONED! Thanks, it's what keeps me here.

I'll officially close the blog until late november (further notice) tomorrow at 4 PM. However, I may be stopping in for bits here and there.

Goodnight!

Podcast Ep.2: Shaft Funk 1/4!

Guess what?

EPISODE 2 IS HERE! Check it out at http://survivalofthecool.podomatic.com/

Sorry no embed, but I have important things to talk about here.....

OMG MY EQUIPMENT IS BREAKING AND I NEED HELP FOR THE PODCAST TO CONTINUE. Just read:

Now, worst case scenario, I have enough imported material to do another 3 shows or so, if you don't mind hearing stuff from the same albums. And then maybe next spring the show could restart, but I really don't want to wait that long.

Jazz musicians don't have money (lol!) so I don't expect you guys to pay me anything, but here are some easy AND FREE (or almost) ways to help:

Sign up for a free SHOCKWAVE.com UNLIMITED trial:
Shockwave.com™ UNLIMITED - Try it Free for 10 days!

If 4-5 people do this, then we're set, awesome, move on.

If not that, then buy our iTunes SOTC AVJP iMixes! However, this'll take 100 people to download before we earn enough. But if you must, here it is: SOTC AVJP Help Mix!

And if you ARE loaded with cash, then you can donate via PayPal:

SOTC All-Vinyl Jazz Podcast

Yes, now I am back for real. Right after I wrote that last post my fever came back....

So I have finally created Episode 1 of the SOTC (Survival of the Cool) All-Vinyl Jazz Podcast!!!!!

It's got Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy Smith, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson, Gene Krupa and tons more. So take a listen!

The podcast home page is at http://survivalofthecool.podomatic.com/

or, you could just listen to it here:

And because I feel bad about my lack of postage, if everybody's lucky I'll start a review of Jazz Improv magazine.

Randomness: Toolbar, Upcoming Posts

Here's some total randomness, followed by a real post.

Toolbar Update: (1.5.0) UPDATES:

• Jazz links section beginning under Site Links.
• Improved News Ticker
• Gadgets such as calculator, todo, notes, wikipedia search, FloodIt, YouTube top 10, unit converter, and option to get more!
• "Jazz Chat" available only to toolbar owners!
• Improved search including dictionary, encyclopedia, images, news, shopping, etc.

It's FREE, SAFE, and if you already have the toolbar: No need to redownload, it'll update automagically!

If you don't have the toolbar, then get it and support Survival of the Cool: http://survivalofthecool.ourtoolbar.com and at Jazz Web Tools: http://freewebs.com/jazztools

Starting this Friday, I will no longer be able to post on Fridays or Wednesdays. Mondays and Tuesdays are also iffy, but I'll start listing Jazz Birthdays this week on Tuesday so you're guarenteed a jazz fix.

That should be it for now.......