Corey-ography

Ben Harper is one of my favorite musicians and songwriters.  His mix of rock, soul, folk, reggae and blues really makes it easy to load up the ipod and listen to him for hours. Ben and his band tour quite a bit, he's written and performed on a c...

I once set out to buy every Zappa album (there's more than 60 of them).   I own quite a few LPs and CDs, but haven't completed the mission yet. What's great about Zappa is that you can always go back, sometimes many years later, listen to an...

I first heard Joe Zawinul when I was 14, on a couple of Weather Report albums.  I think it was Black Market and Heavy Weather.   Although his pop tunes like Birdland were catchy, I was more drawn to his other compositions. And Zawinul's...

Weather Report was a influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s, pitting jazz with R&B, funk, and rock elements while still retaining an extremely high level of compositional and improvisational skills. Along with other groups that were...

Joni Mitchell, (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada), is a legendary musician and painter. Initially working in Toronto and western Canada, she was associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mi...

Richard Bona is my favorite bassist living today.   I've seen him perform live twice, something I highly recommend if his touring brings him to your town. Bona is from Minta, in eastern Cameroon, where he grew up in a musical family. &n...

Wayne Shorter (born August 25 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. Commonly regarded as one of the more important American jazz sax players and composers since the 1960s, Shorter has recorded dozens of albums as a leader, and appeared...

David Pastorius is the nephew of bass legend Jaco Pastorius.   David's band, Local 518, has a new album CD on P-Vine Records.

I had never heard of Linley Marthe until I saw the Zawinul Syndicate live at Blues Alley in Washington DC, October 2006.   I've been looking for recordings with him ever since.   Zawinul knows how to pick bass players, and Linley...

Junto 2.0 is a group concept with three primary goals: 1. promote learning through collaboration 2. exchange knowledge for mutual benefit 3. doing charitable work We draw our inspiration from a few places:  Ben Franklin's original Junto club,...

In late January 2007, I was lucky to join up with an awesome group of people heading down to New Orleans to help residents who were hit hard by hurricane Katrina. I had no idea what I was about to experience.   We couldn't avoid seeing the...

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I attended my first Refresh DC meeting in March 2007 and was immediately hooked.  Now, I'm trying to help spread the word. Refresh DC is a Washington DC meet up style community for web designers, developers, and new media professionals who meet...

I've tested both the Helio Ocean and Apple iPhone recently, each for about a week.  I wanted to love the Ocean, but it didn't work out for me.   The iPhone is all I had imagined and more. I think the Ocean will be a fine phone for people...

While I was learning CSS, I found that the best examples were scattered across the web. Over the years, I've collected a massive bookmark library, which I've consolidated into this lens. If you know of any resources you think should be added, please...