music channel

The Music Chair Podcast

toby ho — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:03:28 -0400

I am proud to announce the first episode of my podcast: The Music Chair. I am now a podcaster! I have done two interviews so far. But, one of them is till not out due to technical issues. I am excited about this project, because I love the music, the personalities, and also I realized this will help improve my speaking skills tremedously. Please go and subscribe using iTunes, and give my suggestions and feedback.

Music For Emma: These Foolish Things

toby ho — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:43:57 -0400

These Foolish Things.mp3

Music For Emma: I Want to Talk About You

toby ho — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:42:22 -0400

I Want To Talk About You.mp3

Music For Emma: No More Blues

toby ho — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:41:01 -0400

No More Blues.mp3

Belkin Stereo iPod Microphone

toby ho — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:10:37 -0400

I got my microphone in the mail yesterday, now I can use it to record interviews or music. It did take some effort to set up, though, mostly because of the fact that I have a Mac and Windows setup. I have been syncing my ipod with my Mac machine, and now I want to be able to access my voice recordings from my windows laptop. This is a problem because my ipod was formated in the mac format, googling found that I can reformat it to fat32 and have it work for both mac and windows, so that's what I did. I also set enable-hard-disk-usage to true and start-itunes-when-ipod-plugged-in to false so that from windows I can get at the voice memo wav files without having to go through itunes. I still use the mac machine to sync my music, this works just like before.

Sunday Brunch at Pisces Seafood and Jazz

toby ho — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:34:41 -0400

We paid Ike Stubblefield's band a visit today at Pisces today. Dave Frackenpohl was there accompanying him, it was a classic hammond B3 - guitar trio, just like the Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery band, what a great sound! This is a nice location for us, and Sunday is a nice place too, so we'll definitely be caming back.

My Jazz Calendar

toby ho — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:05:34 -0400

Jazz Jam Sessions and Shows.

Ideas for Listening Session

toby ho — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:54:24 -0400

What are you listening to now?
Hidden Gems
What turned you on to Jazz?
Music that makes you want to shout
Pretty vocals
guilty pleasures
hated it then, love it now
Accidental Discoveries
John Coltrane
Blind Listening(Surprise me!)
South America
Atlanta Locals
Europe
Musicians you've meet

Last FM Scrobbler and displaying my feeds on facebook

toby ho — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:57:34 -0400

I got excited about last fm today and setup the scrobblers for both itunes and rhapsody, since, after all, I have impeccable musical taste;) So, if you would like to see what music I am listening to, click here. After that, I was still excited, and wanted to display my recently played tracks as a widget the one you can generate using widgitize. But my blog/wiki does not yet have the ability to embed widgets(it's coming, though, heh...). So I thought it'd be nice to put it on facebook. If first tried the last.fm app, but it didn't display my recently played tracks like I wanted to do. I got the Blog RSS Feed Reader instead(man, what a boring name). It did just what I wanted:

The above now shows up in my profile page. And since it supports multiple feeds, I added some feeds from this blog as well.

Update: It turns out that there's an app called What I'm Listening to for precisely what I wanted to do with last.fm, I've switched over to that. I still use blog rss feed reader to display my blog feeds.

Music for Emma: All of me

toby ho — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:38:03 -0400

all of me.mp3

Music for Emma: acts as sonny

toby ho — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:35:30 -0400

acts_as_sonny.mp3

Jam Session at Apres Diem

toby ho — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:22:09 -0400

I attended this jam session last night and it was really fun. Syl was there, whom I haven't spoke to in years. I had a lot of fun playing some straight-ahead jazz and met a lot of talented musicians as well. I'll definitely be back.