I recently made a trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras and I had the great pleasure to play some music with my Suegro (father-in-law) Sr. Benito Alonzo and his great friend and wonderful Bajero Sr. Alejandro Galindo. They know a "monton" de songs in the Latin American traditional vein, and they gave me the great opportunity to play a set with them in the afternoon out at Benito's farm which is about a two-hour drive into the mountains from Tegucigalpa. I was given this opportunity back in 2002 when I visited, but I have since learned how to play this music pretty...

This isn't particularly music-related, but it was a very important part of my life for many years. I knew Tae Kwon Do master Young Soo Do for more than 20 years. I first met him in 1985, and I studied under his marvelous regime on and off until 2001. I continued to stay in touch and followed his career until he was murdered and he died within one month of my own father's death -- if there is some kind of weird synchronicity there, I wouldn't doubt it, as Young Soo Do was one of my many fathers.               I don't claim to...

if you have a sound card attached to your computer, and you can run multimedia flashplayer, then you should be hearing the interview I did with Jesse Jones Jr. on the Tracy Fields show on Monday evening, May 17th 2010, in which we discussed Jesse Jones' new record "Father of Scat Hop" which I produced. This was a fun interview! I hope you enjoy listening to it, it runs about one hour. To view the E-Phonic MP3 Player you will need to have Javascript turned on and have Flash Player 9 or better installed. /wlrn_interview_100517.xml  

    FUNKMEISTER the CD is NOW AVAILABLE through CD BABY!!!  

So my first CD, FUNKMEISTER has been pressed and will be shipping shortly. I wanted to write a few things about the CD so people know where I am coming from with this. First of all, the use of the term FUNKMEISTER is not at all intended to label myself as "the Funkmeister", and after this album I will not be "the Funkmeister"... probably will be "Papi Chulo" or some such thing... it's really a phrase and a phase, and the whole thing is really just a joke. Have you ever noticed that whenever you're in a bar, listening to a...

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Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock: composer, producer, writer, lyricist, arranger, performer, artist, record executive, software engineer Current projects include: the new Funkmeister CD, and a new album for Jesse Jones Jr. Hugh has worked on stage or in the studio with the following people of note: Anita Baker (famed songstress, "Sweet Love") Luis Resto (producer, Eminem) Stephen Bray (writer, Madonna) Belita Woods (vocalist, P-Funk, Brainstorm "Lovin' is Really My Game") David Lee Chong (synthesizers/writer, P-Funk, "Atomic Dog") Larry Fratangelo (percussionist, P-Funk "One Nation Under a Groove") Lamont Johnson (bass/vocals, Brainstorm, "This Must Be Heaven") Norma Jean Bell (saxophone, Frank Zappa, Santana, Mahavishnu) Kashif (writer, producer "Love Come Down") Carolyn Crawford (vocalist, Bohannon "Get on...