http://antonjazz.com Official web site of Seattle & San Francisco based saxophonist & composer Anton Schwartz. Site contains concert schedule, CD info, audio, video, blog, more. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:52:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/backdoor-ii-v-progression/ http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/backdoor-ii-v-progression/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:55:13 +0000 Anton Schwartz http://antonjazz.com/?p=551 http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/backdoor-ii-v-progression/feed/ 8 http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/saxophone-etude/ http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/saxophone-etude/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:22:20 +0000 Anton Schwartz http://antonjazz.com/?p=510 http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/saxophone-etude/feed/ 2 http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/around-the-circle-of-fifths-backwards/ http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/around-the-circle-of-fifths-backwards/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:52:39 +0000 Anton Schwartz http://antonjazz.com/?p=486 Hey Joe not too long ago and it occurred to me: the harmony song's chords are a cycle of major chords moving downward in fourths. The world is filled with songs whose chords move around the cycle in the standard direction... down fifths... but I had never noticed one that moved backwards, like Hey Joe. I wondered: are there others there? ...]]> http://antonjazz.com/2012/01/around-the-circle-of-fifths-backwards/feed/ 3 http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/free-music-business-articles-berklee/ http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/free-music-business-articles-berklee/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:29:43 +0000 Anton Schwartz http://antonjazz.com/?p=467 Music Business Handbook. The new volume and the original one are available as free downloads from their site. They feature articles by their faculty on a variety of subjects related to making a career in music—legal, strategic, marketing, financial, etc.]]> http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/free-music-business-articles-berklee/feed/ 0 http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/jazz-attitudes/ http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/jazz-attitudes/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:01:10 +0000 Anton Schwartz http://antonjazz.com/?p=439 http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/jazz-attitudes/feed/ 1 http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/pangur-ban/ http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/pangur-ban/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:05:00 +0000 Anton Schwartz http://antonjazz.com/?p=414 Pangur Bán. I've never recorded it, but I've been performing it off and on for some years now. I named it after a poem written in the 9th century by an anonymous Irish Monk. As I've explained at gigs now and then, the name is a groaner of a pun... ]]> http://antonjazz.com/2011/12/pangur-ban/feed/ 2 http://antonjazz.com/2011/11/moonlight-in-vermont/ http://antonjazz.com/2011/11/moonlight-in-vermont/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:56:45 +0000 Anton Schwartz http://antonjazz.com/?p=360 contact page to sign up if you like), I'll be making those sorts of discussions a part of my website’s blog. To start things off, here’s one I wrote about a favorite ballad of mine, Moonlight in Vermont...]]> http://antonjazz.com/2011/11/moonlight-in-vermont/feed/ 0