Musicians 

Jaco Pastorius

In 1976, Jaco burst onto the scene with the release of Jaco Pastorius, his landmark debut album. Over the next ten years, Jaco contributed volumes to the world of music. Not only did Jaco forever change the role of the electric bass, he contributed m...

Joni Mitchell

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...

Ben Harper

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...

Weather Report

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...

Joe Zawinul

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...

More Music 

David Pastorius

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

Peter Erskine

Peter Erskine is a monster.   As has been the case with many musicians, I discovered Erskine because of Jaco Pastorius.   Erskine joined Weather Report after Jaco, and once that lineup was in place (typically a quartet featuring J...

Wayne Shorter

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...

Linley Marthe

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...

Richard Bona

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...

Volunteering and Community 

Junto 2.0

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,...

Helping out in New Orleans

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...

Geeky stuff 

CSS finder

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...

iPhone vs. Helio Ocean

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...

CSS

Photoshop for Kids

If you have a recommendation for a Photoshop learning resource, and it is kid-friendly, please post it here.

Refresh DC

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...

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