Sound engineering guru, a cappella specialist, singer, vocal percussionist, producer and all-around great guy Tony Huerta sat down with me in his Denver home studio to talk about all kinds of things that can make the lives of vocal jazz directo

Ep. 06 - Massaging the Pizza with guest Curtis Gaesser from Folsom High School (CA)

Sep 14th, 2013 1h 25m

My guest is the legendary (and still a young man!) music educator from Folsom High School in Folsom, CA, Curtis Gaesser. With something like 30 Down Beat Awards (who's counting?) for his vocal and instrumental jazz groups in the past 20 years

Ep. 05 - Absolute Brilliance with guest Jacob Collier

Sep 4th, 2013 1h 17m

My guest this week is the amazing and revolutionary young composer/arranger/vocal jazzer/multi-instrumentalist/YouTube sensation Jacob Collier! Check out his videos on his YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/jacobcolliermusicIf you h

Ep. 04 - "A Finger on the Pulse of Vocal Jazz" with guest Jennifer Barnes

Aug 20th, 2013 1h 27m

My good pal Jennifer Barnes, director of vocal jazz at The University of North Texas, drops by the ol' VJ and B studios for a friendly chat about her life in music. Otherwise, some thoughts on auditions and a couple super charts of the week: "

Ep. 03 - Moomins and More with guest Mika Pohjola

Aug 13th, 2013 57m 39s

My guest for this episode is the Finnish composer, pianist and producer Mika Pohjola, whose projects are available from BlueMusicGroup.com. Pohjola's projects with vocalists are innovative and beautiful, and we had a lovely chat which is accom

Ep. 02 - Thinking To the Right with guest Paris Rutherford

Aug 3rd, 2013 1h 41m

Icon of the vocal jazz ensemble music world, Paris Rutherford is my first guest on the podcast, and we discuss is time at The University of North Texas, his work in the commercial music world, his views on recording vocal jazz groups, Norah Jon

Ep. 01a - CLINIC: VJ Ensemble Sound

Jul 31st, 2013 39m 21s

In this first clinic episode, I discuss issues of tone and lyric delivery with vocal jazz ensembles at a fundamental level. No shocking new ground to break here, and it's really an overview of the subject, but there's likely some advice that y

Ep. 01 - Hello, Vocal Jazzers!

Jul 29th, 2013 1h 4m

The first episode of my new podcast is an introduction, with my condensed musical life story. Some news and Charts of the week: "Centerpiece" (Marsh) and "This Is All I Ask" (Rutherford). No clinic in this episode...that will be released in a

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