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With the Nashville flood still very much a reality here in Music City, relief efforts are on everybody’s mind and continue to be needed. An ongoing emergency relief, Nashville Engineer’s Relief Fund (NERF), has been supported for the past 13 years with the Audio Master’s Benefit Golf Tournament. This year, Nashville music professionals will be getting together for two days of golf with all proceeds going to NERF, May 27 and 28 at Harpeth Hills Golf Course. Numerous local and national audio companies will sponsor each hole, handing out free food, drinks, prizes, and swag. Of course, this chance to get out of the studio and on the golf course is always enjoyed by everyone, and looked forward to annually.
If you want to register a team to play, sponsor a hole, or contribute in any other way to NERF or the Audio Master’s Benefit Golf Tournament, more information can be found on theAES Nashville website or the Audio Masters website.
AES Nasvhille's Spring Mixer
Every Year AES Nashville hosts what they call the "Spring Mixer" - a mixing competition for students of audio engineering. Several schools are participating this year, sending teams to spend 8 hours in a studio at MTV's downtown Nashville facilities mixing a professionally recorded song. This year, Yosh provided the tracks, a Freddy Washington produced song for Grammy nominated artist Da' T.R.U.T.H. This is a great learning opportunity for the students as they will be critiqued and judged by a panel of some of Nashville's finest engineers.
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Nashville Recording Workshop and Expo
I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Nashville Recording Workshop and Expo hosted by the Audio Engineering Society last weekend at Belmont University. The two-day event featured panels, master classes, and demonstrations with some of the industry’s dominant professionals, and during any downtime between these events several companies and organizations were represented to exhibit their products....
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The end of January saw the release of the newest Tommee Profitt record, produced by John Jaszcz and John Lawry (www.johnlawry.com). Tommee is a young worship leader and songwriter from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He currently serves as the worship leader at Grace Bible College. Beautiful Grace is a collection of ten original worship songs that are both fun and focused on bringing hearts back to God's beautiful grace.
To learn more about Tommee Profitt and to purchase Beautiful Grace visit his website - www.tomeeprofitt.com
Congratulations to all nominees for the 41st GMA Dove Awards. John Jaszcz had the distinct honor of working on projects nominated for several awards:
Cat. 9: Rap/Hip Hop Song of the Year: "Lost" from Big Picture by Da' T.R.U.T.H.
Cat. 19: Contemporary Gospel Song: "Wait on the Lord" by Donnie McClurkin
Cat. 19: Contemporary Gospel Song: "So Good" by Melinda Watts, Freddy Washington Jr.
Cat. 21: Rap/Hip Hop Album: The Big Picture by Da' T.R.U.T.H.
Cat. 31: Contemporary Gospel Album: Smokie Norful Live by Smoke Norful
The Dove Awards are hosted by the Gospel Music Association as a night of music and celebration to bestow their highest award to the top Gospel/Christian artists of the year. Good luck to all nominees, we'll be watching April 21st!
For full details, please visit DoveAwards.com
John Jaszcz recently had the opportunity to work with students of the MTSU Records class (www.mtsurecords.com) in Detroit, MI on a Motown medley. As part of a documentary about the once prominent record label Yosh recorded some of the top Detroit players of today playing some of the top Detroit songs of the past.
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John Jaszcz aids in the Haiti relief! When Kirk Franklin coordinated a benefit production for earthquake relief in Haiti, Yosh readily joined in process. He mixed the song "Are You Listening: A Love Song For Haiti" after Kirk Franklin solicited the artistry of several gospel greats to perform. The band, donating their time during Stellar Awards weekend, laid a killer track that was then sung over by an incredible list of vocalists: Marvin Winans, Mary Mary, Smokie Norful, Marvin Sapp, Bebe and Cece Winans, Shirley Caesar, Jeremy Camp, and Natalie Grant, just to name a few.
Watch the video and purchase the song at gosplemusicchannel.com/haiti
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