I think that's everyone

While I was filming the benefit show for Tony Janflone Jr. a month and a day ago, I was excited. I figured I'd have plenty of video highlights to post, material that would sound and look decent.

As it turned out, once I started editing the footage, I never thought I'd stop. There were so many quality performances by some of the area's finest musical talent that I contined to put together videos, whenever I had some relatively spare time at the office.


I wanted to post representative material from everyone involved, and the final piece of the puzzle turned out to be the event's opening act, the Skip Peck Trio featuring vocalist Donna Peck (that's her at left).

I certainly enjoyed the ensemble's jazz-flavored set, but I knew there would be a few issues once it came time to edit the video.

That night, I recorded the audio using a "matrix": one channel from the soundboard, one from an audience microphone. That setup worked fine for the louder acts, but the Trio played at a somewhat softer volume. That and a relatively inattentive, chatty crowd (to be fair, they were just settling in) rendered the audience recording almost useless.

The soundboard patch had its problems, too. I still was trying to get a proper balance for the show, and as a result, I ended up with some very ugly electronic noise at key places.

The selection the Trio played I ended up posting was "Summertime," one of my all-time favorite compositions, a song that's been performed in just about every genre imaginable. (Heck, Janis Joplin sang a rock version with Big Brother & the Holding Co.) My edit, though, only encompasses the second half of the song; the audio to that point was beyond salvage.

So enjoy the video of "Summertime," then scroll down and check out all the other performances I've posted for one memorable evening in March!