I’ve started adding audio recordings of my poems. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of these recordings using this link: http://jasoncrane.org/feed/rss/?category_name=audio.

I posted three new episodes of The Jazz Session this week:

• The Jazz Session #41: Eddie Daniels
• The Jazz Session #42: Jo Lawry
• The Jazz Session #43: Spencer Day

All About Jazz

All About Jazz published my interview with saxophonist Donny McCaslin and my coverage of the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival.

Other news

And today, I hung out with my good friend, trumpeter Satoru Ohashi, for the first time in years. Satoru is in Troy tonight with Tony Clifton and His Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra for a performance at Revolution Hall.

Howdy, friends.

For a long time now, this site has had a static front page directing you to other places. However, JasonCrane.org is still the first thing that comes up when you Google my name (not that I have, of course, but that’s what people tell me). And there are some things that happen to me that don’t fit at The Jazz Session or RocBike.com.

So I’ve decided to start posting here again, and to also use this site to aggregate my work from other places.

And then, in a couple months, I’ll give up again.

Cool?

For those few of you who are wondering why it’s been so long since I updated this site, I have an answer. I’m spending most of my time these days at two of my other sites:

• The Jazz Session
• RocBike.com

So head to those and see what I’ve been up to!

If you know me at all, you know I’m a media whore. With that in mind, I’ve added a new PRESS section to the site. It’s over there on the right side of the screen, and it contains articles about yours truly for your reading pleasure.

What would any rational person do at a time like this? Make things more complicated, of course. And we all know I’m rational — it says so right next to my photo.

Here’s how my brain is working. I think that the podcast should have its own site, like it used to when it was a radio show. And like it will if it’s a radio show again someday. So I’ve revived thejasoncraneshow.com to serve as the online home of the podcast. I’m still working out how to revise the technical details for iTunes and the other listing sites. While I’m working that out, I’ll keep the shows at this site, too. But please head over to thejasoncraneshow.com to look for podcasts. Within a day or two, I should have all the feeds and iTunes subscription buttons up at that site, too.

Thanks for your patience while I work all this out.

That’s a one-click iTunes subscription button. If you click on it, it will open iTunes, subscribe you to The Jason Crane Show, and start downloading the most recent show. Cool, huh? (Thanks to Dan Klass for the tip!)

The Jason Crane Show is now available via iTunes. Just use this link, which will open iTunes and take you to The Jason Crane Show page, from which you can subscribe to the feed. Enjoy!

One more thing: You can listen to the show right now using the snazzy PodPress player right in the post. Clicking on the Play button (the triangle) will start the show. You can also download using the Download link. Cool, huh?

The Jason Crane Show! (OK, I kept the old name.)

This show will feature interviews, reviews, and my views on a host of topics from politics to science to the arts. The pilot episode is now available. To listen:

• Use your podcast catcher (iTunes or iPodder) to subscribe to my podcast feed.
• Click on Show #1: Showering Stitches to listen in your browser (or right-click to save to your computer).

I hope to have The Jason Crane Show available at iTunes soon. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think. Thanks!

As James Brown says, let’s take it from the top. The photo is of the Hagyard Building on Main Street in my hometown — Lenox, Massachusetts. This building is where I lived with my mom and grandparents when I was first born. My grandparents lived on the floor with the bay windows, and my great-uncle and his wife lived upstairs. The first floor was the Hagyard Pharmacy, thus the name of the building. Clicking on the photo will always bring you back to the home page.

Right under the photo is the navigation bar. You can get to my bio and resume, the home page and the links page from here. You can also send me an e-mail using the link that says … wait for it … SEND E-MAIL. Tricky!

On the right side is the other navigation bar. You’ve got the basics repeated there, plus two other snazzy features: Categories and Archives. You can pick a subject area from the category list, and you’ll see all the posts that fit that subject. For example, if you want to read everything I’ve written about the Rochester International Jazz Festival, just click on the RIJF category. Similarly, you can read all the posts from a specific month by choosing that month from the Archives list.

Underneath the archives is the search box. You can search for any word or phrase on the site by entering your text into that box.

Under the search box is the mailing list subscription box. Just type your name and e-mail address into the boxes, and you’ll receive periodic e-mail updates about the site.

If you look way down at the bottom, you’ll find the RSS feed. You can plug that link into your news reader or other RSS reader and get the updates delivered right to you every time I add something new.

Soon, I’ll be adding more multimedia files, including the new Jason Crane Show podcast.

Drop me a line to let me know what you think of the new site, and thanks for stopping by!