In the true spirit of doing it together, fellow musician and newly-graduated graphic designer Josh Tabia threw together a most excellent banner for the blog. Fella knows how to make a two-bit operation look good, that’s for sure. Thanks Josh, for making us seem that much more legitimate. If we keep this up, we might even get somebody fooled!

Last night was another I spent in the studio, but not with the Almanac Shouters (that mayhem will resume – and hopefully culminate – tonight). No, last night was installment 3 of a project that has been creatively (hah!) dubbed ‘The Album-A-Week Project’. Every week we’ve been getting together some of Kalamazoo’s finest young musicians, writing up some chord changes, and jamming – just to see what will happen.

This is not an Album-A-Week session, but it looks like one

All three sessions have been very successful, with plenty of fusion-jazz jam-band goodness packed in to three hot and sweaty Wednesday nights. As soon as I get some of the material mixed and mastered, you can bet it will be available for free download right here, so if that’s something you’re interested in, make sure you keep checking back – I’m bound to get some of it done eventually.

The blog will be getting yet another facelift and slight relocation in the near future, as DIT member Carman Goodrich was awesome enough to take care of URL and hosting space for a bona-fide site, which he’s also going to whip up for us. We’ll let you know before that happens and where we’re going, but rest assured it’s going to a positive development, allowing us to do all the silly things we really want to see in a DIT website.

That said, if there’s anything you guys want to see us do, give us your recommendations by emailing jaradwselner (at) yahoo (dot) com and we’ll make sure we take ’em in to consideration. After all is said and done, everybody’s got to help if we’re gonna do it together.