Notes On My New CD Five Leaves Left, Track By Track – 9. “Friut Tree”
On Tuesday, March 29th, “Five Leaves Left: A Tribute To Nick Drake” by the Jason Parker Quartet was released. Each day thereafter I wrote at length about one of the tracks – how the arrangement came...
View ArticleNotes On My New CD Five Leaves Left, Track By Track – 10. “Saturday Sun”
On Tuesday, March 29th, “Five Leaves Left: A Tribute To Nick Drake” by the Jason Parker Quartet was released. Each day thereafter I wrote at length about one of the tracks – how the arrangement came...
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Seattle Trumpet Players are Hot Right Now!
l-r: Thomas Marriott, Cuong Vu, Chad McCullough, Jason Parker I just noticed that as of today, 4 of the top 10 downloads at All About Jazz.com are from Seattle trumpet players! Cuong Vu (#1), Chad...
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Music From My Students – So Proud!
How I spend my summer vacation... For the last 6 years I have been teaching Rock Band workshops at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. During the summer, winter and spring school breaks we bring...
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One Working Musician/Daddy!
Poppy Parker at 18wks, 2days. Isn't she beautiful??? That’s right…I’m going to be a daddy! My wife and I found out recently that we’re going to have a baby girl. Poppy, as we’ve been calling her...
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You Never Know Who’s Listening (Or, How I Got Interviewed by the BBC)
Music-lovers geek-out! A couple days ago my friend Spekulation posted on Facebook that he was DJ’ing at a site called Turntable.fm. I had never heard of it, but I was intrigued and wanted to find out...
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TONIGHT: Internet Broadcast From My New Band, Tango Ahora!, on Google Plus!
Tonight at 7pm on the World Wide Web Tonight at 7pm my new band, Tango Ahora!, will make it’s debut live on the internet, thanks to the new technology called the Google Plus Hangout. Google Plus is...
View ArticleThe music industry is a construct. Musicians are the reality
I inadvertently stumbled across some comments I wrote back in May of 2011 on a post over at Digital Music News called The Music Industry: It’s Becoming a Third World Country… written by Paul Resnikoff....
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Plans for the new JPQ CD have begun! “Homegrown” will feature music written...
“Homegrown” – Music from the Seattle Jazz Scene Almost immediately after the completion of our last CD, I started to mull over ideas for our next one. Such is the life of the working musician! I came...
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Our New CD “Homegrown” To Be Released On Dec. 9th!
Homegrown by Jason Parker Quartet At long last, I’m happy to announce that the new Jason Parker Quartet album “Homegrown” is complete and will be released on Dec. 9th, which also happens to be my...
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Our New CD “Homegrown” To Be Released On Dec. 9th!
Homegrown by Jason Parker Quartet At long last, I’m happy to announce that the new Jason Parker Quartet album “Homegrown” is complete and will be released on Dec. 9th, which also happens to be my...
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