About Jazz Farm
      I came up with the idea for Jazz Farm a few years ago during my final semester at CalArts. I wanted to do a jazz album that rocked it's ass off and didn't conform to a typical contrived manipulative contemporary jazz album. Most of all, I wanted the recording to accurately depict who I was and involve as many of my friends as possible. "anybody who's ever gotten anywhere didn't get there without taking some risks!"

Here's how I did it and how much it cost:
1. I wrote the music and rehearsed 4-5 times a week during Aug. 2002, with keyboardist John Wood.
2. My mom graciously took out a loan and my dad donated money to get me started.
3. Using the money my dad donated, I bought three reels of 2" Emtec tape at a cost of $512.68.
4. I next booked time at Blue Ribbon Studios  in downtown Los Angeles with engineer Kent Verderico and recorded Jazz Farm on Sept. 8, 15 2002 with overdub sessions on Nov. 9 and 17, totalling $1295.
5. Engineer Dan Pinder then mixed the 8 songs for Jazz Farm on Dec. 9 and 10 at Cello Studios  totalling $1500.
6. Oh yeah, I had to buy four reels of Emtec 1/2" tape totalling $189.13.
7. The musicians cost around $680. They were my friends so I didn't want them to play for free. John, yours is on the way! rock on!
8. Louie Teran mastered Jazz Farm at Marcussen Mastering  on Dec. 18, 2002. Mastering cost around $1550.
9. Cathy Yersin designed the packaging for the cd and put together the cover with pictures that were taken by Michelina Wright. Graphic design was around $400.
10. I then shipped my master off to Oasis CD Duplication  to have 1000 copies pressed. Duplication cost $2038.71.
The total cost for Jazz Farm was about $7905.89 and took a little over a year to complete. Stay tuned for the next one!

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