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Thursday, May 27, 2004

2004.05.06 - The New Jazz Thing Live on Jazz 88, Thursday evening 6 to 9 pm PT - Charles McPherson, Deems Tsu

The New Jazz Thing is Live on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM and worldwide webcast at http://KSDS-FM.org, from 6 to 9 pm PT TONIGHT, Thursday, May 27, 2004!

Charles McPherson will be with us by phone in Hour 2 of the New, 7:00 pm PT. Charles has had the mantle of Charlie Parker to carry around for the better part of his career, so we are going to ask him about that, his tenure with Charles Mingus in the 60'-70's, and, most excitedly, about upcoming dates in Los Angeles at the Playboy Jazz Festival.

UPDATE! Charles McPherson Interview on MP3 (20 MB)

Bradley Leighton and Deems Tsutakawa will be on in Hour 3 of the New, 8:00 pm PT, talking about a gig this weekend at Dizzy's, Deems weeklong gig at the Microsoft TechEd 2004 conference in town this week, and, more than likely, Jazz in the Northwest (as Deems and Bradley have both made Seattle home at one point or another).

Should be a great evening of Jazz and Jazz talk tonight on TNJT!!
5:46:28 PM

TNJT Goes To School - To Teach Work, Hobbies, and Blogging

I practiced a key element of Jazz today, Improvisation, in front of a cool bunch of future Jazz fans. With only the briefest of outlines, we talked about how the work-a-day lives we must live can be made fuller with hobbies and other fun activities. SAIC's cool, Red, driver-less Grand Challenge Entry was as much a hit as any of the Radio and Mobile weblogging gadgets and services that make up my hobbiest activities.

I started out by using http://Audioblog.com and my telephone to conduct a "What are your hobbies?" interview with the class, with the goal of showing off the Live posting of a telephone interview to the web. After discussing my gainful employment, we then took a brief tour of various TNJT properties. I showed off http://TNJT.com and talked about how I post information about my radio show guests and other New things, like that new multimedia work, Dragonfly. We then discussed being able to take camera phone pictures and immediately posting them to http://TNJT.TextAmerica.com, where we showed a couple class photos that I took before and during our talk.

Then, we sprung their own audio on them, recorded on the phone when we started the chat and posted live to http://TNJT.com/audblog using the http://Audioblog.com service. And we played it back to them on the portable radio, using the little FM transmitter gadget plugged into the computer headphone jack...my private DJ machine! Mobile recording technology broadcasting to the masses...or just masses of eager kids looking for something to do..

A great time was had by me and I hope by the kids. Enjoy!
5:25:07 PM