Stormhorn.com
Blog URL http://stormhorn.com/wp/
Located Caledonia, Michigan USA
Tags jazz, saxophone, storm chasing, tornado, supercell, music, improvisation, sax, weather
Jazz saxophonist, storm chaser, and freelance writer Bob "Storm" Hartig shares literate, heartfelt, offbeat, and often humorous insights and vivid photos that will take you from dimly lit bandstands to the dark skies of Tornado Alley.
Latest Blog Posts
- Storm Chasing Musicians on Nov 24, 2009 in Band Jazz Life Music Saxophone Storm Chasing Brandon Goforth Dave Gallaher Great Plains jam session jazz venue in Tornado Alley Microwave Dave and the Nukes storm chasers and musicians Stormhorn blog
When I started the Stormhorn blog two years ago, I envisioned two distinct readerships: storm chasers and musicians. Knowing nothing about blogging, I naively figured I could reach both audiences. I mean, what the heck, why not? Amazingly, it seems t...
- What Storm Chasers Do During the Off Season on Nov 23, 2009 in Life Relationships Storm Chasing Tornadoes Uncategorized Aurora Nebraska tornado Golden Monkey nothing to chase the storms we got Watch the Storm Chasers series on Discovery Channel
What do storm chasers do when there’s nothing to chase? Watch the “Storm Chasers” series on Discovery Channel. f course I don’t speak for all storm chasers. But a good number of you, like Tom, Bill, and me, have been parked in...
- Double-Tonguing on the Saxophone: Tips from a Neophyte on Nov 21, 2009 in Jazz Jazz Improvisation and Technique Music Saxophone Uncategorized circular breathing double-tonguing on the saxophone learning how to double-tongue on the saxophone sax success at double-tonguing technique
Let me just say it: learning how to double-tongue on the saxophone is hard. For as many years as I’ve been playing the sax, a span of time somewhat longer than the age of many igneous rocks, you’d think that by this point I’d have m...
- A Favorite Augmented Scale Lick (or, Echoes of Oliver Nelson) on Nov 19, 2009 in Uncategorized anchor tones augmented and major triads augmented scale augmented scale lick improvising musicians Oliver Nelson Sequence Stolen Moments symmetrical scale Using the Augmented Scale with Giant Steps
I’ve been having fun lately getting the augmented scale underneath my fingers in all, ahem, twelve keys. Okay, right, there are really only four versions of this symmetrical scale that a person needs to learn, after which the note sequences rep...
- Black Ice Alert: Are You Prepared for Winter Driving? on Nov 17, 2009 in Life Outdoors Weather accidents caused by icy roads black ice ice-related traffic deaths icy roads kill storm chaser Dan Robinson
At the time of this post, 29 people have already died as a result of accidents caused by icy roads during a winter that has not yet even begun. The tally for last winter was 477, with Michigan tying for fourth place with Illinois and Pennsylvania, al...
- A Rant about Spam Comments on Nov 16, 2009 in Life Uncategorized a rant about spam comments authentic relevant comments please write anytime relevant to jazz or weather Stormhorn.com vague comments why I screen every comment
Like most bloggers, I love to get comments. I work hard to create well-conceived, literate posts that I hope you enjoy reading, and I really enjoy hearing from you, my readers, in return. What I do NOT appreciate are vague comments which are clearly...
- The Old Carlton Center Church in Charlton Park on Nov 14, 2009 in Life Outdoors Photography Calton Center Church Charlton Park Hastings historic village Nashville Michigan Thornapple Lake
ith nothing hot brewing on my mind in the way of jazz, and certainly nothing in the weather other than a beautiful, unseasonably warm day, I thought I’d post a photo from yesterday’s excursion to historic Charlton Park. For me, this shot...
