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My book on iBookstore!

Yazan: Jason | 06 July 2011 | No Comments
Categories: freelancing

My Road Warrior Without an Expense Account book–the book I wrote a few years ago about freelancing–is now on the iBookstore!  You can get it on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad through the following link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/road-warrior-without-expense/id443972392?mt=11

Ever find something like this on your stand?

Yazan: Jason | 30 September 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: freelancing

I was doing some blog maintenance the other day when I found this post from four years ago about a performance I was playing at Symphony Center downtown. In it, I had posted a scan of a piece of paper that we had all found on our stands when we got to the concert that [...]

A Tax Form for the Marginally Employed – NYTimes.com

Yazan: Jason | 25 May 2010 | No Comments
Categories: freelancing

Jeremy Baguyos, the double bass professor at the University of Nabraska-Omaha, sent me a link to the following story that the NY Times put out back in April. It (somewhat depressingly) sums up my former career: A Tax Form for the Marginally Employed – NYTimes.com

A look back: A Week in the Life

Yazan: Jason | 04 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: crazy gig stories, freelancing, humor

You’ve just gotta love this profession. No matter how many roadblocks get tossed in their path, musicians always seem to find a way around them, taking things in stride and laughing about it later with each other over either coffee or beer (depending on the hour!). Whether it’s butchering the Messiah by whacking the transposition [...]

Tails Man

Yazan: Jason | 26 May 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: crazy gig stories, freelancing, humor

There are always a few moments (usually in the spring) when the stark contrast between “normal life” and the wacky life of a freelance musician rear their heads. A few examples from a recent warm and sunny Saturday: I was breathing in the wonderful springtime scents through my open kitchen window, my awesome cat Dan [...]

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