Happy New Year

Happy New year to everyone!!! This is my 1st post of 2010. There are lots of exciting things going on in the life of Jason Passmore. Here we go:

1. I'm starting to do some sub work in Wild Rice, a Latin Jazz group here in Atlanta. Looks like things are going well and I may be the sub guy. When One horn can't make the gig, I've been getting the call. More work for me.

2. I will be doing some adjunct/part-time teaching at Georgia Perimeter College. I will be teaching a Music appreciation course and a Jazz History course. The college is a two-year school and the music department is small, but it seems as though everyone really works together. I won't be blogging much about my teaching, except to tell of student performances at Georgia Perimeter.

3. It looks like I will be returning to full sail university in March. I will be finished by May. I am still not 100% sure what I will do next. My wife tells me that if I just want to teach, go fro the degree. I have many other interests I want to pursue. I just don't want to be 50 when I am finishing my PH.D. If I do it, I want to be done by 40-42. I know I want to teach jazz and saxophone and I want all options available to me.

4. I am working on a few CDs: Jazz CD, solo sax CD, and a electronic music CD. All will be released by the end of this year. The interesting thing is that I plan on doing all of the recording for the solo sax and electronic CD. My colleague and friend, pianist Daniel Padron will record and play on the Jazz CD. I hope to start recording in March.

5. Since I want to play more jazz, I need to network more in the scene. There are some incredible musicians here in Atlanta and I want to get to know them and vice-versa. I will try to make to more of the jam sessions (as many as my wife and kids will allow).


That's about it...Got to get back to it.Later..