Show Notes: 52 minutes@160kbps (63MB) - August 22nd, 2005. Guitar Talk with Dan Balmer #2. We get into Dan's ideas on the Creative Process, Truth in Music, Composition and more. This is a very good episode, and one of many that we plan on doing with Dan and other amazing players. Dan shows us how he thinks about creating music, talks about how Wes Montgomery and John Coltrane affect his creative process, and why he doesn't try to impersonate any of his heros. We recorded this at his home studio on the new equipment. I'm going for higher sound quality for you guys, so this one is at 160, and is a little bigger file, but worth the download.

Show Notes: 40 minutes@160kbps (46MB) - Pere Soto is at it again. This time with visiting guitarist Ed Levy, professor of jazz at the University of Toledo. They play a few tunes and talk about Django, the chromatic scale, originality and playing together. A very nice thing to be able to do when someone comes to town, and we hope to do more of this. So if you come to Portland, look us up. Bigger file, higher quality, new equipment. This is getting better and better.

Show Notes: 71 minutes@96kbps (50MB) - Fireside Jazz Jam on August 6th, 2005 with Pere Soto and Darren Littlejohn on guitar, Jason DuMars on sax, with Jack McCreary, Sam Smith, Steve Pinkston, Jesse Feinstein and other guests. It was an extremely fun night and I think people will really like the playing. Tunes include Black Orpheus, Cousin Mary, Footprints, Well You Needn't, How Insensative and more (not in that order). Check it out, shoot us an email. Thanks to the iTunes subscribers at almost 15,000 downloads since July 9th. THANKS!

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Show Notes: 22 minutes@112kbps (17MB) - Guitar Talk with Pere Soto. Pere is visiting again from Barcelona, Spain. We were hanging out doing computer stuff and decided to do a quick episode of Guitar Talk. The topic is Basslines, Harmony and Melody. Pere is a very heavy player, composer and recording artist. He can do it all, and I've seen him do it all in a variety of settings. He can and has definitely hung with the best of them. I have another show with he and John Stowell which I'll put up later. In the meantime, check it out and leave comments.

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