Monica Dominique Hammond Party @Jano

Tonight's performance at Jano were Monica Dominique on hammond and vocals. Carl-Axel Dominique on piano, flute and vocals. Rigmor Bådal on bass. Justina Lakin on drums, and Amanda Sedgwick as guest artist on saxophone and vocals.

This was the season finale and also our last night at Jano, at least as sound technicians. It has been a fun and educational time there and we have received many appreciations from the Jano staff as well as the members in the audience, which is really great! Our followers will have to work hard. Really hard. ;)

Thank you Jano for letting us have this great opportunity!

The Stage

Rigmor Bådal & Monica Dominique

Amanda Sedgwick

Carl-Axel Dominique

Me, Daniel and our mentor Mats Blomberg

Daniel and I got flowers and a season pass to Jano as a gift

Recording for a commercial@Studio Blue and Hayati Kafe & Jan Allan with Carefree Big Band@Jano

At lunch time, me and some of the other students gathered at Studio Blue to take part in a video and photo shoot session for a new Studio Blue commercial! The cool thing is that my song "Satisfied" was used during the shoot and will probably be featured in the final video! \m/
We recorded some drums to the pre-recorded guitar tracks and tried to look as natural as possible as they were filming. It's hard to act natural on command! ;)

Movie stars Selma and Rasmus

Alex and Jonas with the project leader, and Rasmus looking innocent :)

Later this day I want to Täby as usual and made the stage ready for a 19 people big band!

Tonight's performance were Hayati Kafe  & Jan Allan together with Carefree Big Band. We got to be in the auditorium once again and we used up all 8 channels on the mixer for piano(stereo miking), electric guitar, electric bass, vocal mike, a talk mike and two mikes for supporting different brass solos. The drums and most of the brass were loud on their own and were played unsupported.

Me tweaking the audio

The Stage

Jan Allan playing the trumpet

Hayati Kafe singing

Top Three @Jano

Due to a water leak in the main room, tonight's gig was moved to the auditorium. Today's performance was a trio called "Top Three", with Ulf Johansson Werre (piano, trombone and vocals),  Hacke Björksten (saxophone) and Hans Backenroth (contrabass). It was the first time we were in this room, but it turned out to be a lot easier to manage the sound in there! The bass wasn't a problem at all, and was both powerful and clear and the total sound was equally good in all areas in the room.

The bass player had a small bass amp on stage which we tapped to the PA system, but we also tapped the bass contact mike and got to mix the two sources. The piano was miked with two Line Audio CM3 and the saxophone was miked with a Shure SM57, but it was barely amplified as it was loud on it's own.

The audience and the performers was very pleased with the sound, and afterwards people came to us and thanked us for the good sound! Always fun to be appreciated! :)

"Top Three"

Daniel at work

M A Numminen@Jano

Tonight at Jano the main act was M A Numminen, the Finnish guy probably most known for the "Gummiboll" song, well at least for me. On piano and accordion was also Pedro Hietanen, and they both did a fun and appreciated show. This will most likely be the first and only time we put a mike on a telephone book, on which Numminen played as a drum! ;)

The opening act was Martin Åklint Trio with Annie Ternström, four youngsters that also played some great songs and got loud applauds!

The bass player in the opening act didn't have his own bass amplifier, which gave us total control over the bass sound this time. The room has some resonances in the low end frequencies when there are amps put on the floor behind the musicians, but tonight it wasn't a problem and the bass was clear and every tone played could easily be heard.

M A Numminen & Pedro Hietanen

Martin Åklint Trio with Annie Ternström

JANO - Jazzklubb Nordost

Since last autumn, me and a friend have been helping JANO in Täby with live sound on Sundays. Really fun and educational! We help setting up the equipment and then manages the amplified audio, to get the best sound possible to the audience. We have received many credits for the improved sound quality from people in the audience which is super fun!

So far we have been working with the following artists:

Peter Getz & Stockholm Jazz Trio
Meta Roos
Lill-Bength Erixons Kvartett.
Margareta Bengtsson
Peter  Asplund / Martin Sjöstedt Dektett
Mill Street Jazzband
Lisa Lystam Family Band
Jojje Wadenius
Robert Wells Trio (picture)
Jan Lundgren & Hannah Svensson
Joel Svensson B3 Trio

Today it's Sunday, and tonight is another gig.