Zx1 pocket camera stars at 2009 Jazz Awards!

Brief bits of Hank Jones, the Charles Tolliver Big Band, Jane Bunnett‘s Spirits of Havana, flutist Frank Wess, trombonist Roswell Rudd, Blue Note’s Bruce Lundvall, singers Mark Murphy and Kurt Elling. A worthy Jazz Foundation pitch and SESAC toasts all the nominees! So easy to edit I’m going to re-view early Godard for jump-cut tips. So easy to upload I’m going to rethink reporting, interviewing and self-publishing strategies and techniques.

I’ve seldom been an early adaptor adoptor (or an easy adaptor), typically fighting technological change/upgrade/adaption needs but to be able to upload easily edited, even slightly amusing clips (crude as first attempts tend to be) viewable to the online universe is simply Irresistible. And once they’re there, they’re easy to import here:

Of course this music is copyrighted to Charles Tolliver — I’m only putting up a glimpse as one in a series documenting some of the Jazz Awards (I asked Charles’ permission). 

Now I’m on the browse for music journalists or frequent writers on any of the arts currently incorporating video clip and other digital media into their blogs as natural extension of reporting for poor old-fashioned radio/newspapers/magazines. I’m sure there must be many t and I’ve just been oblivious. I know mostly the work of Bret “JazzVideoGuy” Primack, admiring (for instance) his eminently viewable, intimate interviews with Sonny Rollins. Other recommendations?