Recession

The other night friend and talented vocalist Marley Dzis brought me and some other Northwestern University Jazz cats to a studio to record some joints for her demo. She was kind enough to give the band some extra time to record one of my original compositions entitled "Recession".

Download the joint here: http://www.mediafire.com/?2wgyyjmhez4

Michael Anderson: Tenor Saxophone
Katharine Hedlund: Piano
Cory Grindberg: Bass
Michael Westerband: Drums
Ken Ross: Guitar

hope you all diggg it, Michael Anderson goes INNN on his solo, enjoy.

In other news:
-This Thursday the Northwestern Jazz Orchestra is premiering my first arrangement for full orchestra. Check for more details here.
-A video to accompany the tune "New World" off Zzzz is under production, I'll post it here as soon as its finished!

Album Art

I've always been very attuned to album art. Those of you who have been *lucky* enough to be invited over my place know that I have some of my favorite's hanging on display, making the whole interior design process effortless. After some recent trips to the Art Institute I thought it'd be cool to electronically display some of my favorite works.

So, in no particular order:
(check out how some of them relate to or may have inspired latter ones)























(also: if you don't have any of these records you need to get them!!!)

On the Radio... for real this time.

Kinda funny because a couple months back I was writing about how I was "kinda" on the radio, but lately my music actually has been making it onto stations across the nation so I just wanted to give some shout outs to some of the Djs and stations that have been supporting me and playing some of my tracks.






so call up your local DJ and request KEN ROSS so that your favorite station can make it onto kenrossmusic.net!!! Wouldn't that be something...

FOX NEWS calls in the experts...

There are obviously a number of questions that come up from this video.
But some of my initial inquiries were:
1) I'm very curious as to where "Fox News Legal Analyst" Mercedes Colon got her law degree from.
2) God forbid Kayle's mom went down that street "butt neked" rather than Erykah, then we actually might have had a number of legitimate cases coming forward.

check out Badu's ENTIRE work here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCaCIstoOsU

(tips to Dooski)

Black Sheep Mag "Zzzz" Review

This review was just incredible for me to read over. Its really amazing when people dig your music even more than you could have ever expected them to... (Especially when its a critic!?)

Its a pretty in depth review and well worth your time to check out if you find a second:
http://www.blacksheepmag.com/reviews/album-reviews/item/1716-zzzz



special thanks to Daniella Robbins and the rest of Black Sheep Magazine

cooolest thing everrr lollll

No seriously. This was an amazing find, awesome for some creative procrastination, terrible for my paper due Friday. (it might take a long time to load but its well worth the wait!!) http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html#top




Thanks to Chairman Rau for the initial tip!

This is also pretty sweet:

"Body Paint" Installation at "Clicks or Mortar", March 2009 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

NBN Interview/Article

The Northwestern University Publication North by Northwestern did an interview/article on "Zzzz" that is a pretty good read for info on... me. I guess.

Special thanks to Lorraine Lee and the rest of the NBN staff!!!