jeff shuck

Not as cute as Danny, but very, very cool.

Though I haven’t pursued music professionally for almost ten years, it continues to be a huge interest of mine. I try to compose and play as much as time allows. Plus, I’m a bit of a gear freak (okay, an enormous gear freak), and so I’ve kept abreast of the incredible evolution in equipment and [...]

Well, I had some time on my hands and finally got around to posting a whole bunch of songs, including my entire album from 1998 — ten years ago! — on the Songs page. Take a listen!

Since I wrote my last post about the Axis Natural Keyboard, I’ve been doing some more digging. Their site has a number of artist testimonials, but it’s hard to really know what those mean because many tend to be paid testimonials. More interesting was a short video from NAMM posted atSonic State, which shows the Axis in action [...]

Although I haven’t pursued music professionally in years, it is still one of my biggest hobbies, and I try not only to keep up with my playing but also to keep pretty well abreast of what’s happening in the technology and performance front. Truth be told I’m a bit of a gadget freak and nowadays [...]

Wicked
We went to see Wicked yesterday and I was pretty blown away by how great it is. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a musical that I thought was this good — probably years ago, when I saw Rent. I ordered the sheet music and I’m excited to fiddle around with it. The Chicago leads — Kristy [...]

I just made a mix for my car and figured, why not share the playlist? Here’s what I’m listening to these days. I’m in a contemplative mood, but that’s okay. I recommend checking any of this out the next time you find yourself milling about on iTunes.

“Hide and Seek,” Imogen Heap, Speak for Yourself
“Ladies and [...]

I’m back from a few days on the road to points west — a project meeting for one of our key clients and a visit to load-in of a big product launch we did this week. So I’m here in the office at my big desk catching up on email and basically scooting around on [...]

Well, it has been a fairly crappy week — actually, a tough month. No, a tough year so far. Yes, tough and crappy. But I’ve found a good stress reliever. After using iTunes for several years to download songs, something popped yesterday. I started to rip every CD I own onto my computer.
I’d held off [...]