Savvant Music

Thanks to Post Paradise for donating their time and music to our local school fundraiser!
For a limited time only, Nick and crew have authorized us to give away some free downloads!

A few weeks ago, Bob and I saw an new band called Post Paradise open at Hodi’s Half Note in Fort Collins, Colorado (from which we hail).  At this, only their 3rd live show, the group (formed less than six months ago) performed a set of 10 original songs which showing great promise for this fledgling band.
As you [...]

We spent ALL DAY last Thursday with the amazing Quincy Jones.
He probably doesn’t know it, because there were always 200-2000 other people there as well ;-), but WE knew it and it was AWESOME. It was like spending the day in the presence of giants and their ghosts and their shadows as Mr. Jones walked [...]

It’s always the bands you find by accident that turn out to be the best, as you’ll find by reading further about new music recommendations from NPR vs what we found by stumbling down 6th Street…
CFO Bob Carnahan and I arrived here in Austin last Friday to catch SXSW interactive, so even though yesterday was [...]

Well, here it is at the very start of SXSW 09 and I’m in the middle of site upgrades! Well, my husband always complain and asks why I always insist on doing all the laundry right before a trip.  What can I say? I’m thorough and I want to make sure everything is well backed [...]

Trumpeter Thomas Marriott put together a fantastic jazz quintet featuring the pure, clear and rich tenor sax tones of the amazing Hadley Caliman.  Marriott’s deep melodious flugelhorn and rich trumpet tones were perfectly entwined with Caliman’s when they played together, and yet they played nicely contrasting improvisational solos individually.
A little tired of standing venues with sticky [...]

We initially started out our Savvant Music blogs to be just that, blogs not reviews.  Our original intent was for these to be notes from gigs researching possible artists for Savvant Music. However, over time we realized that more and more we were really reviewing the bands.
As a result, I’ve gone back and edited some [...]