Rod McGaha & United for Peace Orchestra

Here are some short clips  from a UPO concert. A friend of mine gave me this footage. We start recording in November. Pray for us :)
Rod




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEfU9rzkDU

Attend Rod McGaha's Next Jazz Recording Session Nov. 5th

Hey Everybody, here is some information on my upcoming recording session. Blessings.
Rod
http://www.musicpi.com/mcgaha.html

House Of Alchemy

Hey everybody, this friend of mine Molly Secours is doing some important work in film. If you enjoy what she is getting at, please support her. I talked with her about this, and it is going to be something else by the time it is finished. Check out the link.

Rod

http://www.indiegogo.com/House-Of-Alchemy-1

Chris West Performance!!

I will be hitting with Chris West this Thursday. Come on out!! Here is the linkhttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170162426385720

Rod McGaha @ The Jazz Workshop

I will be performing this Friday @ The Jazz Workshop. If you are not doing anything come on out. Here is the link for the info. http://www.nashvillejazz.org/EventDetails.php?eventID=118

Cicadas

These cicadas are starting to get on my nerves a little bit!

The Journey

Trying out some new mouthpieces today. I feel like my jaw is dislocated!!!!! What we go through.

Swing on.....

Had a great time performing for Leadership Nashville today. It was held at the great Ocean Way studio. That room sounds fabulous!!!! I had the great Roger Spencer on bass, and the great Andy Reiss on guitar. Oh yes, we were swingin'!!!!!!

Look up!

I just saw what seemed to be the tallest man in the world. He was standing at the bus stop.

Beautiful

Pulled out Clifford Brown with strings today. That sound!!!!!

Auditions

I am currently having auditions for a new ensemble. You must bring your long form birth certificate, and 2 other forms of identification. You also must have graduated Magna Cum Lawdy Haf Mercy. Please send all materials to:

Let's Get Serious
1765 People Need Help Drive
Give Me A Break, Laughafornia, 26791

Yours Truly,
What A Joke Jones

Riverfront Performance.MPG

My Favorite Video

Here is a video of my favorite artist, singing his greatest hit!! Ladies and Gentlemen Mr. Chris Walters.

Look Of Love

I'm Confessin That I Love You

Warming up

Getting Back To Basics

Practicing with the metronome today. My playing has been getting a bit sloppy lately:(

Rod McGaha A Dream

The Servant

This is a song from my project (The Servant) Around 1997

Rod McGaha & United For Peace Orchestra

Performance @ Christ Church Cathedral

Rod McGaha & United For Peace Orchestra

I would like to thank those of you that are coming to the concert tomorrow. I am very excited about having my original compositions, performed by this  fabulous group of musicians. Here is a news article about the performance. Thanks again. Rod


http://tennesseetribune.info/media/TN_TRIBUNE_FEB_24_2011.pdf

UPO Performing Friday Feb 25th.

Hey Everyone, I hope you get a chance to check out this concert. 23 great musicians, and all original compositions I've written. Check out the link below. Blessings
Rod



https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1406594.6941533941/rid:8d1416b1c0d860d843deaf1be5140077

Great Music!

Made some great music with Chris Walters today. Look for his new cd this summer.

Pay Attention!!

It's a drag to tape together a big band chart, and find out page 3 is where page 2 should be. UUUGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!

What a player!!

Listening to Snooky Young today. This day will be alright!!

Pretty Costly!

You know, I was thinking. This printer cartridge business is the biggest rip off known to man. YIKES!!!!!

Time waits for no man!

I recently noticed how quickly we get through a day, without getting things accomplished. I have started an experiment to see how much i get done. Things that you will need.

1. pencil

2. paper

3. STOPWATCH!!!!!

It's very simple. Just choose the tasks you want to get done. Write them down, and give yourself a certain amount of time to achieve them. Stick with the time limits you have allowed. Set your stopwatch. You could just use a clock, but i prefer the stopwatch. If the phone rings and, you get carried away on the phone that's your problem. You have just thrown yourself off schedule. Trust me, it is very easy to do! Now we all know that there are certain things we have to get done during the day, just to survive. Take these things into account such as eating, and various other things. There are three things i am focusing on each day to accomplish. I won't go into specifics, but here the 3 categories.

 1. Health

2. Practice

3. Writing

The problem for me is this. I will set out to practice, but it does NOT happen. My goal is to do 30 minutes of long tones. I do one long tone, and take a rest before i do another. The next long tone does not happen until 56 minutes later. I have totally thrown myself off. Today that's what happened because i wanted to check some music i was writing. I thought i would go check a note, and come right back. It was 56 minutes later. I was in my PRACTICE session not my CHECK NOTE session. You get the idea. STAY FOCUSED!!!!!!! :)

Blessings

Great Music

Just got finished laying some trumpet solos for the new JD Souther record. Great songs! The cd will be released this summer.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!