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Some of the finer tracks from our 2005 cd “Kenny MacKenzie Trio II” are now available for download at tradebit via our store page for $0.99 each! This album has been unavailable for some time now, and I’m glad to finally be able to get the music heard again.

Albums are listed in chronological order so scroll to the bottom to see them. There are even cool little player buttons to listen before you buy. If you like and want to purchase them I suggest using the paypal “add to cart” buttons to the far right – this will prevent you from being redirected to the Tradebit site which only facilitates 1 song on a page (!).

If this makes you happy give us a shout. Proceeds will help pay for production of the next release.

Also – still going on is the free mp3 download for people who become fans or friends at either facebook or myspace.  Who doesn’t like free music? and we certainly appreciate your support. Maybe we’ll see you there.

This week – become a fan on facebook or myspace and receive a free mp3 download. See you there!

(from a Shenole Latimer concert…)

photo by S. Kurioka

Apologies for not being a more diligent blogger, tweeter, fb’er etc. I’ve been feelin’ the electro bug lately – if any of you are into some rpm/beats et al – I do my own special brew… some love it, some find it a bit too retro…  I do what I do – just as in jazz. I just put out an online-only release of Christmas material called “Nativity Set”. If you’ve got 2 bucks and feel like taking a chance on some new holiday music – you can get it here.

I’ve written some new jazz music that will hopefully get recorded sometime this year – also contemplating remastering some of the tracks off of KMT II since most of the world hasn’t heard any of it – some of it is pretty hoppin’ (Savino/Higginbottom lineup). Some of it definitely needs to be re-recorded. If you haven’t heard tracks from it you can download “I Want More of You” for free. Check out Chris’s snappin’ solo right up front!

Special thanks to Radio Swiss Jazz for putting “Sarabande” into their rotation, to Chris at KFSK in Alaska for all the attention, & to all the other stations who are showing the love to  “There You Are”.

There’s a lot more interaction going on over at the Facebook page…so I’ve decided for now to make that the place for all the niceites and specials. CD sale specials, videos and free downloads happen there regularly – if you like those sorts of things – you can access them with 2 free button clicks – here’s the first:

Kenny MacKenzie Trio Facebook

When you get there – just click on “become a fan” and that’s it! You know…Bob’s your uncle. Unless of course you don’t have a facebook account. Then you have a few more clicks and what not. But you should – then you can join groups like “I Hate Cilantro”, “Thomas Crapper Day Awareness”, “French Horn Mania” and, my current favorite: ” Yo si creo en el Chupacabras”.

Spent most of yesterday tidying up this site – the bios page and the background photos. I see that those photos are still a few pixels too narrow for Firefox… when I feel like subjecting myself to major tedium I’ll go back and add 40 or so to them all. 

Enjoy your day!

Well quite a bit has happened in the last few months. Played my last few shows on Long Island as a member of Shenole’s quartet…including a pretty sweet festival gig warming up for Joe Lovano in Huntington. Said my goodbyes, packed my aptmnt up and headed down to Palm Coast, FL where I just bought a house. My drive down was interrupted briefly by a failed fuel pump in Georgia. Could have been a disaster, but thanks to God, Garmin and a very cool mechanic in Richmond Hills named Greg – I was back on the road in 4 hours; in spite of some crazy weather in GA.

I’m pretty settled in now as is my dad – who moved in with me. I’ve spent the last 2 months hangin’ with him, or at Flagler Beach, on FB, or compulsively monitoring the continuing success of the latest cd “There You Are”. Mixed in between all that I’ve been thinking through the next trio release, including composing a few numbers; delving headlong into recording the next Seven Octaves cd and also composing/scoring music for a student’s upcoming superhero movie.

It’s definitely a welcome change of pace – working less and being more productive musically; one I have gotten used to quickly. Trying to locate some good jazz musicians that are somewhat local in Flagler or St. Augustine – if that’s you make sure to give me a holler!

Finally a very hearty thank you to the directors and djs who continue to play our music all over the country, and to anyone out there listening. A very special thanks to WPTC in Williamsport PA who have given the cd it’s first #1 position this past week, and for keeping it in their top 10 since May. Tremendous!

Thanks for stopping by! Peace – Kenny

“There You Are” – officially the 6th cd by Kenny MacKenzie Trio is out! We’re receiving some very wonderful adds and airplay at some very awesome stations throughout the continent and getting some nice local charting. This is our first album to enter the Jazztimes chart! Woo-hoo!

If you visit our ‘store‘ you’ll see links to all the places you can either download tracks or buy an actual cd, including Itunes, Amazon, Rhapsody Juno and of course CD Baby, as well as all the other popular sites. The Junodownloads site looks particularly interesting since they sell wav files as well as mp3 formats.

The first review is of the track “Sarabande” by Mark Saleski over at jazz.com. Here’s a link. He seems to have liked it.

Thanks for stopping by  – please give a shout when you can.  – KM

ps – on Friday the 29th of June Ray Parker, Yoni Halevy and myself will be backing up Shenole Latimer at Szechuan Jazz in West Harford, CT. Maybe we’ll see you there!  8-11

Hey folks – welcome to the new blog. Most earth citizens are familiar with wordpress by now, so no explanations/tutorials will be given. Do to growing popularity of both the band and evil blog spammers, all comments will have to be approved before posting.  Apologies to those like myself who lack patience in such matters. Family friendly site – please keep it that way…

Oh yeah - the new cd!! It’s finished. That’s the cover up there. It’s entitled “There You Are”  and is scheduled for release on 5/15/09 (a very special day, wink wink). It features 9 tracks with 3 different lineups. The music player on the listening page has a selection from each lineup. Frequent visitors to the site might notice these songs have appeared before; but these are the final professionally mastered versions, sounding far superior to any previously posted version. The rest of the tracks will be all new to most viewers, including (at the request of some critics and fans) a jazz standard. Woo-hoo!!

The website itself should be displaying new-ness as well in the next few weeks. The cd artwork doesn’t really lend itself to website design like the last one did…we’ll see what happens. Expect a new image map, at the very least.
As always – thanks to old and new fans for coming by the site. Go ahead and post something, would ya? Make this thing more lively & fun for everybody.
Be well and Peace – Kenny