Hey Blog friends, Greg Vail here with the Christmas edition - all the sites, sounds and gifts for you this Christmas!
It has been a really busy season already with CDs flying out the door, new websites, updates with FREE MP3s, new pictures, new Christmas tracks (free this year) and a busy couple of weeks ahead!
Lets start with the CDs. I have
2 Christmas CDs and they are available all over the web.
Christmas the Hymns is a Smooth Jazz Christmas CD with favorite Christmas Carols.
Is It Christmas Yet? is a old school jazz combo playing Carols and Holiday favorites.
It just comes down to your taste in jazz styles - Traditional or Contemporary! Many Saxophone lovers have just bought them both and testimonials are always coming in with very high marks!
This year I have covered the Web with great Christmas sites to do all I can do to get the music out there and enjoyed! The following list covers Christmas sites, pages and Social networks that feature these fun Christmas Songs!!
Greg Vail Christmas Sites
Jazz Christmas Music
Christmas on the Socials
That is the Advertising portion of this post - done now!!
SO - What about the free stuff?
FREE DOWNLOADS MP3s
I posted free downloads for the first time! I wanted to thank my many online friends for there support and music is my gift.Go to the Smooth Jazz Christmas site - Downloads Page for 3 new Christmas tracks for 2009 and 3 tracks from my Christmas CDs. I gave some instructions to download and you can add them to your computer, burn them for other use, or simply add the files to your favorite MP3 player!
Christmas Sax Pictures - Wallpaper
I have a new White Yamaha Custom 875EX in my house and took some pictures under the Christmas Tree. They turned out great and I made one into a screen saver / wallpaper for this month. I decided others too might enjoy the pics and a new wallpaper for there computer so the pictures went up on my Flickr account. Grab a big size by right clicking and saving it to your computer and you can make it your background for your system too. The long ones work out best! ENJOY!
Christmas Sax Pictures Slide Show or go to the files with this link to
copy a picture. Right click on PC or Control-Click on MAC and save file or target as....
Here is a little sample of my favorite wallpaper ------ Check 'em all out at FLICKr
Christmas Tour - Christmas Services
I have a really fun tour scheduled with my friend Charles Billingsley on the East Coast - December 12th-20th. I am really excited about snow for Christmas this year and the amazing ministry opportunities that come around this time of the year. When I get home it will be Christmas at Saddleback time with my friend Rick Muchow! This is always a blast, with thousands coming into church over 10 services to hear the Christmas message!
Here are the dates and locations as I understand them, for the events I am scheduled for.
Christmas Tour with Charles Billingsley
Christmas Tour/Mount Anderson Baptist Church
12/14/2009 -- 7:00PM
Mount Anderson Baptist Church
P: 828/465-2680
4818 S. NC Highway 16 Maiden, NC
Christmas Tour/TBN Taping
12/15/2009 -- 7:00PM
Christmas Concert for TBN in Decatur, GA
Trinity Broadcasting Network
P: (404) 288-1156
1330 Agape Way Decatur, GA
Christmas Tour/First Baptist Church of Lilburn (www.firstbaptist.net)
12/16/2009 -- 6:30PM
Christmas Concert at F.B.C. of First Baptist Church of Lilburn
P: (770) 921-1220
285 Main Street Lilburn, GA
Christmas Tour/Flint River Baptist Church
12/17/2009 -- 6:15PM
Flint River Baptist Church
P: 256/828-3692
12945 Highway 231-431 Hazel Green, AL
Christmas Tour/Piedmont Church
12/18/2009 -- 6:00PM
Christmas Concert at Piedmont Church (www.piedmontchurch.tv)
Piedmont Church
P: (770) 422-2566
570 Piedmont Road Marietta, GA
Christmas Tour/First Baptist Church North Spartanburg
12/19/2009 -- 6:30PM
First Baptist Church North Spartanburg
P: 864/578-0511
8740 Asheville Highway Spartanburg, SC
Christmas Tour/First Baptist Church Arnold
12/20/2009 - 8:00AM 9:30AM 11:00AM
Sunday Worship Services AM (www.fbca.us)
First Baptist Church Arnold
P: (636) 296-2703
2021 Missouri State Road Arnold, MO
SADDLEBACK CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Lake Forest - Saddleback Church
Christmas Services
Thursday, Dec.24
1:00 PM
3:00 PM
5:00 PM
7:00PM
Do you want to hear a cool new radio show I have been playing on?
It's the Jazz Poets Cafe on KPFK in Los Angeles CA.
They archive shows for a month or 2 and here is the link for the first show -
Jazz Poets Cafe on KPFK - http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=24225 - listen to the Thanksgiving Show here - turned out really fun!! (forward 2 minutes in - 27 minutes long but you can skip around all you want) 
The next show airs this Wednesday the 9th at 2PM and you can you can hear it in the LA area at KPFK - 90.7 FM & 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara. You can also stream the station online - http://kpfk.org/listen-live/audiofaq.html
12/9/09 - 2 PM - 230PM - KPFK
It's is our Christmas Show, recorded live to tape for later airing. Enjoy and share the link. Poetry and Jazz works really well together!!
If you miss the Wednesday show, it will be archived online by Wed. night and up for 60 days (I think). Just hit the above archive link.
The New Years Show will air either the 23rd or the 30th, 2PM again - but I would guess it will be the 30th. Myrenna and I do a fun set of Myrenna's poetry and me playing some free jazz, solo behind her. It is pretty artsy and I have enjoyed the process and the first show a few times now.
NEWS FOR THE NEW YEAR
NAMM is coming in January 2010. I will be playing with Dean Grech and band on Thursday the 14th, 3pm.I am scheduled to play the big Yamaha dealer show Friday night Jan 15th. I will be demonstrating the new White Yamaha 875EX Alto Sax in the Yamaha rooms at the Marriott on Saturday the 16th, and then running off to the Light House in Hermosa Beach to play with a great rock band my friend Tomas Crocier has put together. Sunday the 17th I will be enjoying the NAMM Show exhibits and meeting up with endorser's and friends all day!!
THAT'S TOO MUCH FOR NOW!!!
Go get some free tracks, look at the cool sax pics and maybe download the radio show for fun. Hope to see many internet friends as I get out and about over the next month or so!! Merry Christmas and early Happy New Years!!
Greg Vail
SAXBOY
