I just got back from a trip down south to good 'ole New Orleans. Of course being from there, it's like going back home for awhile and certainly leaving to come back up north was tough.

I find that going back to New Orleans always gives me a chance to recharge my funky bone and get low with some real down sounds. This trip was no exception as I was fortunate enough to take in a real voodoo jazz set with true skeleton dance drummer Johnny Vidakovich and by contrast a Cool Jazz set by veteran jazz legend Ellis Marsalis.

The Marsalis set was at Snug Harbor, a mainstay of downtown New Orleans live jazz which often hosts any number of local and out of town greats on a rotating basis. Only problem being that the cover charge is pricey. Be that as it may thru my funky down home connections we were able to get in free that night and enjoy some great Cool Jazz the way it's supposed to sound. Ellis has a real nice East Coast sound that he has honed over many moons playing with some of the all time greats like Cannonball Adderley. The combo featured vibes, which is an automatic goosebump machine! The vibes just sound so great that they make you feel like you are walking down 42nd street (the Deuce) on your way to Birdland circa 1952.

On the other hand the voodoo jazz set by Johnny Vidakovich featured a trombone and an electric tuba they call a sousaphone!! Man, now that is what I'm looking for when I go down south to the motherland! Nothing like shaking your bones to the call of the sousaphone! Johnny is the king of the New Orleans 'walking drum' beat that comes from the second line. If you don't know, the second line is where it all started when crazy cats began following military marching bands and goofin' off with their own instruments. Ever asked yourself why jazz is played on marching band instruments? Ha! Now you know!

Digg that man!!

Yeah, I think the genius of Joe was his quiet power in knowing that with one simple key punch he could basically blow the roof off the auditorium... anyone playing synths knows that there is so much danger hidden inside those electronics... who hasn’t blasted their eardrums with a bad resonance setting? ..

In fully knowing that power and the force that he had at his finger tips, his job was to restrain that power and tame it. And then he also knew how to play a melody. Electronic Jazz is like balancing on a surfboard at the edge of a cliff. One wrong move and its over. Because of his decades of experimenting with that wild beast... just listen to ’I Sing The Body Electric’ to hear what I mean... he eventually learned to slightly tame it.

That beast remains wild however, especially when you are willing to feed it raw meat like Joe did.

Ok, don't tell me I didn't warn you! This set is going to be extremely funky cool medina in a way that will reconnect you with your inner alligator spirit. I will pump up the juice with a clear shot at making your hips do things your head never knew you could. Girls in front please, boys watch how I do this and don't try this at home unless you are not afraid of high winds and heavy rain!

Hi Frenzied Fans!

Yes you heard right, Jazzy Burn's is once again playing *LIVE* at the new Warper Party in BROOKLYN, New York! As if Jazzy Burn's wasn't already cool enough, he has to go play live in BROOKLYN! Oh well, I just can't help it :) there is a consolation prize for all you playa haters: the show is FREE!

So you HAVE to come on down to Supreme Trading, 231 north 8th St. in Williamsburg (L train). Introduce yourself and I will great you with a smile, a handshake and an awesome *LIVE* improvised set!

BROOKLYN baby! Don't say I don't serve it up!

Well furry friends, it has been one full year since I posted the last blog and that is because I AM BUSY!

So you ask, if you have been on Myspace for over a year why do you only have 150 friends or less? Is it because you, Jazzy Burn's are the biggest loser on Myspace? (said with a twisted, lipstick smeared smirk, her gloved hand dangling a cigarette scissor finger style...) Or perhaps there is something that repels the other good denizens of Their-Space? Is Your-Space unsavory in some seamy underground way, or perhaps it is the lair of a corporate vampire?! Do you dwell in an unhealthy His-Space that would frighten teenagers and music teachers...?

Aha, Space-Citizens, it is none of the above, yet a far more cunning and calculated maneuver set to puzzle and befuddle many a wayward internet astronaut.

I do not seek out friends, as many a greedy keypuncher do. I do not seek a wife, as some would admit to. Nor do I seek the adulation of the masses of anonymous screen junkies, as most must.

Stranger, I seek friends. The real kind. Polite, interesting, sincere, willing to communicate no more than a thought, yet a true thought, the kind they had to come up with themselves.

So, think for yourself. Shun conventional wisdom. Above all distance yourself from media mayhem and prefabricated social disturbances. And talk to me...you'll see, I can be friendly!

For booking inquiries and demos email us at this address:

music@oopazz.com

Additional tracks are featured on the Oopazz Recordings (tm) website: Oopazz Recordings (tm)

You can also contact me directly thru Myspace of course! Thanks!

To celebrate their new tour, Meat Beat Manifesto and Thirsty Ear Recordings released the remixable stems from the track "Wild," as heard on the album "At the Center". MBM's team split up the files in Session View and included a lesson file so that the song could be remixed using Ableton Live 5

Many entries were received and after a lengthy judging process Thirsty Ear and Meat Beat Manifesto came up with a winner and two runners up: "It was a tough competition, but Thirsty Ear Recordings, Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers and Ableton would like to extend their congratulations to Lars Korb (aka the Bugbreeder) with his "Loose Interpretation." Honorable mention goes to the runners up:

2nd Place: David Martindale
3rd Place: Beau Tardy with "Jazzy Burn's Wild"

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music outfit originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK. Meat Beat Manifesto are considered a 'best-kept secret' in the world of dance music, providing (sometimes unwittingly) the musical starting blocks for young samplists in the know (most notably The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Future Sound of London), and helping to form new musical styles, such as Big Beat and Jungle music, with seminal tracks such as 'God O.D.' and 'Radio Babylon', respectively.

Jack Dangers is the veteran composer and sound sculptor behind Meat Beat Manifesto. His constantly evolving musical invention has generated a long string of futuristic classics including Prime Audio Soup from the sci-fi fantasy blockbuster The Matrix. In 1997 Dangers recruited drummer Lynn Farmer and guitarist Jon Wilson to record and release Actual Sounds & Voices in 1998, which found the group's earlier flirtations with jazz fusion featured more prominently; the record included appearances by saxophonist Bennie Maupin. The album yielded the single "Prime Audio Soup" which was featured in the film The Matrix.

Thanx to all the great people who have become and want to become my friends. It's great to get to know you a little bit. It's also great to build a network of people with similar interests who want to share ideas and creativity. To make sure that the group remains meaningful I would like to make sure of a few things:

1/ Please listen to the music. Read my reviews and my influences -read my blogs. Send comments.

2/ If you already have more than 100 friends *please* send me a personal message to say why you would like to be my friend (i.e: "way cool blend of Jazz and beats...").

3/ If you have less than 100 friends I will automatically add you as long as I like your vibe and your page.

4/ I won't add anybody with a vulgar page.

5/ Visit my other friends pages- they're great!

The people on my list are people who's work and ideas I like. I have unfortunately had to remove people from my list when it became obvious that they were only interested in squatting or adding numbers to their own list-- so don't even try.

Thanx, be good and stay safe!